Video from an Outremont festivity
Writer Taras Grescoe tweets a video from his Outremont street, where a community is welcoming a new Torah.
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jeather 19:59 on 2019-12-29 Permalink
Since I don’t know if people know, a Torah scroll costs 30,000+, it’s all written by hand and takes about a year, using special parchment and ink and a feather quill. If errors are made (including smudges or cracks in the ink), they can sometimes be corrected but sometimes require burying that page of parchment and redoing it. Commissioning a new Torah is a big deal and getting it is very celebratory.
Kate 22:24 on 2019-12-29 Permalink
I knew a little about the scribing – I know you have to get a scribe to make a mezuzah scroll also – but not the price for a new Torah. It must be considered a mitzvah to donate for it.