Matted Hebrew Scroll
It is impossible to ship a large framed Torah portion. Therefore I have a few sections that I keep on hand to ship without frames.
Hebrew Scroll of Psalms
Psalms – A Rare Scroll with a Very Unique Chapter Psalm 119 Three things about this very long chapter of Psalms quickly come to mind. First, it consists of 176 verses divided into 22 eight verse sections. Every section is given one of the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet to begin the first word …
“they shall mount up with wings as eagles”
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” This section is from a Hebrew scroll of Isaiah originally written on sheep skin with a quill and iron gall ink …
Scroll of Isaiah
This photograph is from the Scroll of Isaiah purchased from Machon Ot in Jerusalem in 2004. Rabbi Steiner wrote the following: “Isaiah Scroll (complete) – Russia 80 – 90 years old.” The Scroll had been re-lettered sometime in the past. The Scroll had been damaged since the re-lettering, probably in a pogrom in Russia and …
Lamentations
This is the complete Scroll of Lamentations (Eikhah in Hebrew) which is part of the Megillah. It was written according to the law of STaM (the many laws which regulate how kosher Scrolls must be written). It was written by a Sofer (scribe) in the 1800s or earlier in North Western Europe. The Sofer wrote …
The Ten Commandments
In 1999 a Christian businessman and I started the Scroll Project (I like to call it The Scriptorium). The project was to find badly damaged Hebrew Torah Scrolls, purchase them and frame as many pages as possible and then to donate them to places where they would be honored as the Written Word of God …
4 Scribal oddities first day of Creation
Lithuanian Torah The Torah Scroll from Vilna, Lithuania Written 1750 between 1770 4 Scribal oddities first day of Creation Dr Colin Smith (1955 – 2008) Hebrew Professor from Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania was par excellence among the Hebrew professors I have worked with. His practical way of teaching using the basis of …
Lithuanian Torah Scroll written between 1750 and 1770
Sofer’s (Scribe) quill used to write a Torah Scroll in Dallas, Texas In June 2004 we sent an individual to Jerusalem to purchase several non kosher Hebrew Scrolls for educational purposes to be used among Gentile Christians. It had been my goal to place in the hands of Christin seminaries, colleges, Bible schools, Bible …
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