Some say her work is forbidden. Some might say it’s a complete waste of time. Others remain silent. But Julie Seltzer, one of a few women in history to write a complete Torah scroll, is just following her heart.
“My love of Torah led me to be a scribe,” she says.
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Saturday night is the anniversary of the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai. Strange, isn’t it, that on the holy day we celebrate the Giving of the Law, we traditionally study the Book of Ruth, the most transgressive of the Bible, a book that explicitly defies a Divine command.
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Many people associate the word “Torah” with the Five books of Moses, but according to Jewish wisdom, the Torah and what was given at Mt. Sinai was much more than a book.
- Torah in all Sorts of Places (frumesarah.com)
- Ready to Receive the Torah? (coffeeshoprabbi.com)
- Indiana Jones and the Shavuot crusade (blogs.timesofisrael.com)
- First Things First (trinityspeaks.wordpress.com)
- ‘The Luckiest Man’ (jewishpress.com)
- The Beauty and Power of Shavout: May 27th and 28th, Sivan 6th and 7th (dralexstarr.wordpress.com)
- Italy’s Torah Day limited to men (timesofisrael.com)
- Why Women Can Recite Birchas HaTorah (jewishpress.com)
- The Point Most People Seem to be Missing about The Hassidic Community (glaminglamor.wordpress.com)
- 10 modern Torah-giving moments for Shavuot (blogs.jta.org)