A Torah scroll has been handed down in his family for “thousands of years,” the Utah rabbi said, in the same way Druin does his work. To illustrate the significance of the handwritten text ...

The Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a scribe to write a holy scroll with feather and ink. The Torah took a year to ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Displaying his congregation’s new Torah scroll, Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid takes great care to move it with reverence, to ease it open delicately, to keep it safe and secure.

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

In the Zohar, the main text of Kabbalah or mystical Judaism, the Jewish people and the Torah “are united, are one. We’re all a letter in the scroll that represents all of the Jewish people ...

Inside, all furnishings, the shul (school), and particularly, two precious Torah scrolls — the central text in Judaism, containing the five books of Moses in Hebrew — were incinerated.

Rabbi Simcha Weissman added: "A Torah scroll is written in black fire on white fire. The white fire symbolizes the broad spirit beyond the written text – and Kfir was the white fire. A young man ...

Even for a text as familiar as the Bible ... Wiesel, himself born on Simchat Torah in 1928, recounted witnessing Jews who had no Torah scrolls and lived amid unthinkable horror in a concentration camp ...

saying she feels honored to be able to write a Torah scroll. “To be this close to the text, on the elemental level of the letters, is extraordinary.” Seltzer says she doesn’t feel that her ...