Sefer Torah Information A Sefer Torah – a Torah Scroll, is the Bible, hand written on parchment [animal skin]. And it’s the most holiest of all books. Portions of the Torah are read from it weekly in the Shuls [Synygouge]. A Torah scroll containing the entire text of the Five Books of Moses, hand-written in the original Hebrew, in the Ashuri / Assyrian Jewish Script. Kept in the Ark of each synagogue, the Sefer Torah is routinely read aloud in all synagogues, and in its presence we offer prayers and blessings for all those in need. Yet the Sefer Torah is much more than that. It is the quintessential, core representation of Israel itself. It is the tangible embodiment of our connection to G-d and of His wisdom and guidance. On the most joyous day of the year, we embrace it in our arms, as we dance ecstatically [...]
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Yosef said to his brothers, "I am about to die and God will remember you (pakod yifkod) and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore about to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya’akov." (Bereishit 50:24) The words "pakod yifkod" – God will remember you – were not only his parting words, but the very wo ...
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