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Sefer Torah
 The Sefer Torah is the most precious article in Jewish life. It is what conect us with G-d and it is the source from which we derive Divine instruction for our daily life. It is prefectly intact just as we received it some 3,500 years ago.
In accordance with tradition the first presentation was shown to Moshe by G-d "Written in black fire over white fire". Moshe transcribed from that Torah of fire while G-d dictated the words. This very Torah was placed in the Holy Ark and twelve additional Torah Scrolls were gifted to each of the tribes.
From these original scrolls, additional Torahs were transcribed in precise detail. Even the letters were identical in appearance. Indeed each and every feature was prescribed by G-d. Thus the chain of Torah remained unbroken from the time it was given to us at Sinai.
Along the 3,516 years of Jewish history, no one of the Torah’s 304,805 lleters has ever been changed and a Sefer Torah that exist in New York is exactly the same that exist in Japan. The words we read in synagogue today are exactly those recorded by Moses. Our Sages have thaught that every Jew has a letter in the Torah which corresponds to his or her soul and spiritual identity. Just as each letter is an essential part of the Torah, so too each and every Jew is of utmost importance and constitutes an essential and integral part of K’lal Israel ( Jewish People ).
 The very last mitzvah in the Torah is to write a Torah Scroll. By endowing a letter, word, sentence for yourself, your children, family members or friends, it is as if you have written your own Torah Scroll.
Mitzvah On Every Jew
It is a mitzvah(positive commandment) for every Jew to write for himself a Sefer Torah as it is said: "And now write for you this song and from tradition our Sages received the explanation of this verse: to write the whole Torah were the song is written. Even if one inherited a Sefer Torah from his father, still he is commanded to write one for himself. If he hired a Sofer(Certified Scribe) to write a Sefer Torah for him or if he fixed the Sefer Torah considered as if he wrote it by himself.
Honoring
We are intructed to render great honor to the Sefer Torah. And it is a Mitzvah to designate for the Sefer Torah an specific place, to clean this place a beautify it as posible. One who sees a person carring a Sefer Torah needs to stand up before it until the Sefer Torah is put back in it place or until he doesn’t see it anymore. And by the Beit Hakneset (Synagogue) when the Sefer Torah is taken out and returned, it is a Mitzvah for all those who the Sefer Torah pass by to go along with it until its place. Oraita 718-613-1111 oraita@gmail.comTorah Scrolls Torah scroll Restoration Computer check Torah mantels Scroll rollers Torah cases Torah crowns Tefillin Tefillin Set Tefillin Service Tefillin Bags Tefillin Accessories Mezuzahs Mezuzahs Parchments Mezuzahs Cases Mezuzahs Checking Judaica Talis & Bags Shabat & Holidays Silver New Items Shabat & Holidays Shabbes Sukkos Channukah Purim Passover Ketav Arizal, Ketav Beis Yosef, or Ketav Sepharadi. Alter Rebbe
The Torah (תּוֹרָה) is the most important document in Judaism, revered as the inspired word of God, traditionally said to have been revealed to Moses. The word Torah means "teaching," "instruction," "scribe", or "law" in Hebrew. It is also known as the Five Books of Moses, the Law of Moses (Torat Moshe תּוֹרַת־מֹשֶׁה) or Sefer Torah which refers to the scroll cases in which the books were kept), in Greek called Pentateuch (Πεντετεύχως "five rolls or cases").
Other names current in Judaism include Hamisha Humshei Torah (חמשה חומשי תורה, "[the] five fifths/parts [of the] Torah") or simply the Humash (חוּמָשׁ "fifth"). A Sefer Torah is a formal written scroll of the five books, written by a Torah scribe under exceptionally strict requirements. The term is sometimes also used in the general sense to also include both Judaism's written law and oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout history, including the Mishnah, the Talmud, the Midrash, and more.
The Torah comprises the first five books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, known as Old Testament of the Christian Bible. To Jews, there is no "Old Testament." The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture.The five books, their names and pronunciations in the original Hebrew, are as follows:
Genesis (בראשית, Bereshit: "In the beginning...")
Exodus (שמות, Shemot: "Names")
Leviticus (ויקרא, Vayyiqra: "And he called...")
Numbers (במדבר, Bamidbar: "In the desert...")
Deuteronomy (דברים, Devarim: "Words", or "Discourses")
(The Hebrew names are taken from initial words within the first verse of each book. See, for example, Genesis 1:1.) These books describe the creation of the Universe and its history, and it describes in particular the special covenant between God and the people of Israel.
Jews have revered the Torah through the ages, as have Samaritans and Christians. It is traditionally accepted as the literal word of God as told to Moses. For many, it is neither exactly history, nor theology, nor a legal and ritual guide, but something beyond all three. It is the primary guide to the relationship between God and man, and the whole meaning and purpose of that relationship, a living document that unfolds over generations and millennia.
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