According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah (plural: Sifrei Torah) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses hand-written on gevil or qlaf (forms of parchment) by using a quill (or other permitted writing utensil) dipped in ink. Producing a sefer Torah fulfills one of the 613 mitzvot (Judaism's commandments).
"The k'laf/parchment on which the Torah scroll is written, the hair or sinew with which the panels of parchment are sewn together, and the quill pen with which the text is written all must come from ritually clean -that is, kosher- animals."
Written entirely in Hebrew, a sefer Torah contains 304,805 letters, all of which must be duplicated precisely by a trained sofer ("scribe"), an effort which may take as long as approximately one and a half years. An error during transcription may render the sefer Torah pasul ("invalid"). According to the Talmud (the oral law of the Jewish People), all scrolls must also be written on gevil parchment that is treated with salt, flour and m'afatsim (a residual of wasp enzyme and tree bark) in order to be valid. Scrolls not processed in this way are considered invalid (Hilkoth Tefillin 1:8 & 1:14, Maimonides). In addition, the Talmud (in tractate Bava Batra 14b & Gitten 54b) states that Moses used gevil for the Torah scroll he placed into the Holy Ark.
Most modern Sifrei Torah are written with forty-two lines of text per column (Yemenite Jews use fifty). Very strict rules about the position and appearance of the Hebrew letters are observed. See for example the Mishna Berura on the subject. Any of several Hebrew scripts may be used, most of which are fairly ornate and exacting. The fidelity of the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, and the Torah in particular, is considered paramount, down to the last letter: translations or transcriptions are frowned upon for formal service use, and transcribing is done with painstaking care.
Naturally, one wonders how a document with so many letters can be produced with no errors; of course, some errors are inevitable in the course of production. If the error involves a word other than the name of God, the mistaken letter may be obliterated from the scroll by scraping the letter off the scroll with a sharp object. If the name of God is written in error, the entire page must be cut from the scroll and a new page added, and the page written anew from the beginning. The new page is sewn into the scroll to maintain continuity of the document. The old page is treated with appropriate respect, and is buried with respect rather than otherwise destroyed or discarded.
That is how our Torah came to be.
The Torah is the Five Books of Moses and the Holy Book in Judaism. The most famous biblical stories come from the Torah. The stories of Jonah and the Big Fish, Noah and the Flood, Adam and Eve, Moses Freeing the Israelite Slaves.
The Torah scroll contains the text of the five books of the Torah, written in Hebrew
with no pictures, drawings, decorations, vowels, musical notations, titles, puntuation,
book, chapter, or verse markings. Nothing but the text. You can read a rough
translation of it in the first five books of the "old testament".
The Torah scroll represents and contains the covenant between the Israelites and God (Exodus 34:27). The rest of its verses relate the origins of the Israelites and the laws which they are to obey.
Torah-scrolls must be written by a specially trained pious andknowledgeable scribe called a sofer.The scroll is written on parchment by hand, in Hebrewcalligraphy with precise shapes for the letters. This takes aboutsix months to a year.The ink is prepared in a traditional manner; andinexactly-written letters must be rewritten before the scroll maybe read from.The scroll is kept wrapped in an embroidered cloth cover in aspecial ark in the synagogue.The Torah is read from as part of the public prayers severaltimes a week, in a cycle over the course of each year.During the Torah-reading, a traditional chant (cantillation) isused to sing the words, and the place in the text is pointed towith a yad (a silver pointer).Tradition states that God taught the early portions of the Torah toMoses orally, on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:12), without writing it.Later, at God's command and precise dictation (Deuteronomy 1:3),Moses penned the entire Torah (Deuteronomy 31:24) immediatelybefore his death, so that it included events that had happened inthe preceding months (such as Numbers ch.20).That is how our Torah came to be.
The Torah scroll is the 5 books of Moses, which are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. It is handwritten in Hebrew on parchment, and read inside the synagogue every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, and on various other Jewish occasions.
One or more Torah-scrolls.See also the Related Links.Link: Facts about Torah-scrollsLink: More about the synagogue
Torah-scrolls. In Hebrew, it's "sifrei Torah."
There is nothing that makes a Sephardic Torah more special than any other Torah.
That's how the Torah was created.
Torah scrolls are read from several times every week. (minimum: Monday, Thursday and Sabbath mornings).
Perhaps you're referring to the 'ark'. The ark is where the Torah scrolls are stored.
Nothing. The Torah Scrolls belong the Jewish people, not to Native Americans and do not mention Native Americans at all.
The platform where the Torah is read from is referred to as the "Bimah."
The Torah was and is written on parchment scrolls.
The Torah scroll.
Torah scrolls
By hand with kosher ink.