Donate a Torah Letter

A Torah scroll is written by hand, by a dedicated “Sofer” (“writer”). The scrolls are created and inscribed in same 3,000 year old tradition.

Each Torah scroll contains 304,805 letters, organized into 5,852 verses and 187 chapters. It takes approximately nine (9) months to complete one Torah scroll.

Here you can see a Sofer inscribing a scroll in the Synagogue in Masada, Israel:

Traditional Ashkenazi (European) Reading from the scroll:

Traditional Jerusalem-Sephardic (North African) Reading from the scroll:

Mitzvah #82: Each person must write a scroll.

יח וְהָיָה כְשִׁבְתּוֹ, עַל כִּסֵּא מַמְלַכְתּוֹ–וְכָתַב לוֹ אֶת-מִשְׁנֵה הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת, עַל-סֵפֶר, מִלִּפְנֵי, הַכֹּהֲנִים הַלְוִיִּם

“The king must write a second Torah scroll.”
(Deuteronomy 17:18)

יט וְעַתָּה, כִּתְבוּ לָכֶם אֶת-הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת, וְלַמְּדָהּ אֶת-בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, שִׂימָהּ בְּפִיהֶם:  לְמַעַן תִּהְיֶה-לִּי הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת, לְעֵד–בִּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.  כ כִּי-אֲבִיאֶנּוּ אֶל-הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר-נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָיו, זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ, וְאָכַל וְשָׂבַע, וְדָשֵׁן;

“Each male must write a Torah scroll.”
(Deuteronomy 31:19)

Thank you for donating a Letter in the Torah today! It is a great Mitvah.