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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Copying Scriptures (2)
Members of a synagogue may participate in the completion of a new Torah scroll, most of which is hand-copied by a professional scribe. TwinCities.com reports on the feelings produced in a Minnesota congregation by this tradition. The Dallas Morning News describes how the congregation's participation helps underwrite the considerable expense of having a new scroll copied.
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Actually, it is quite standard for a commissioned Torah to be "cowritten" in the final few hundred characters by members of the congregation -- it is seen as being equivalent to fulfilling the 613th commandment: to write one's own Torah scroll. Similarly, the "purchase" of words is quite standard too. They are interesting, absolutely, but not innovations.
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