This Week, It’s the Daughters’ Turn!

Hi, it’s Michael again with a guest post.

Every Jewish house of worship has a cabinet or Ark which contains one or more Torah scrolls. Each scroll is made of parchment, on which the entire Hebrew text of the Torah—the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (a.k.a. Old Testament)—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—is meticulously hand-lettered with a quill pen by an expert scribe. It typically takes a year and a half to write all 304,805 letters; no mistakes are allowed. The scr...