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A scroll of parchment on which is written the Five Books of Moses. Portions from it are read aloud in synagogue at least 4 times a week.
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Should you touch the scroll with the yad?
I always understood that, even if not forbidden and often seen, one should not touch the parchment with the yad to prevent erasing letters over time. I see R Hershel Schachter writes the same (Lesser …
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Why is a "classicly" printed Sefer Torah not kosher?
Yisrael Kleinhendler has a very interesting article on the "silk-screen sefer Torah" in Hakirah (vol. 19, Summer 2015). He writes (p. 219) about some of the issues halachic authorities had regarding w …
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Count a Torah scroll as the tenth in a minyan?
R David Sperling at yeshiva.co here addresses your question and brings a number of rejected opinions - to be clear the halacha remains that a Torah scroll does not count as a tenth in a minyan
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Is it disrespectful to have a raffle where the prize is a Sefer Torah?
I got interested in the question because we did once win a sefer Torah at such a raffle during a tsedaka dinner for a school. It was organized by an organization run by a well-respected and very knowl …
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Where to keep a non-kosher Torah scroll?
R Moishe Dovid Lebovits adresses your question here
The Gemara says one is not allowed to keep a sefer Torah that was not
checked (for mistakes) in one’s possession for more than thirty days.
This is …
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Source for removing tefillin straps from your hands for hagbah
Interesting question. I don't do this and always thought those doing it were doing so for convenience. I see AskTheRav.com writes the same (they are affiliated with the Beis Din of Crown Heights and w …
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Is the mitzva to write a Torah scroll for oneself derived from Deuteronomy 31:19?
Yes this is how the Rambam, Maimonides, codifies it (and he is one of the greatest codifiers of Jewish law).
It is the last of the 613 mitzvot (commandments). As R Jack Abramowitz describes it
Th …
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Can any part of Sta"m-making be done by a Gentile?
I looked at R Yerachmiel Askotzky's Tefilin and mezuzos (and checked things with R Reuvain Mendlowitz' Inside stam). R Askotzky writes there a number of the activities involved in preparing stam need …
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Can women in niddah dance and hold a sefer Torah on Simkhat Torah?
There is a Rambam (Laws of Sefer Torah 10:8 based on Berakhot 22a) which explicitly permits niddot to touch a sefer Torah
Any impure person, even [a woman in] a niddah state or a gentile, may
ho …
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Do all the letters in Sta"m need to be the same "baseline" height?
The scores on the parchment are called sirtut and are mandatory on a sefer Torah (SA OC 32:6) and mezuza but not on tefillin (Hilchot Mezuza 1:12). They help to write straight. It doesn't mean however …
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Are women explicitly forbidden from handling and reading the Torah?
You are asking two related but different questions. One about touching the Torah, one about reading it.
Regarding touching a sefer Torah there is an explicit Rambam (Laws of Sefer Torah 10:8 based on …
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If a Sefer Torah is ripped, what should be done with it
The preferred approach is to fix it as long as it is feasible (and even a badly ripped Sefer Torah can normally be fixed by replacing that part of the parchment - since a safer Torah is constructed by …
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Is there an online resource that gives an "overview" of safrut?
There is a wonderful book that adresses exactly this sort of questions across tefilin, mezuzot, megilot and sifrei Torah. Very easy to read and fascinating information
Inside Stam: An insider reveals …
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