The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco presents As It Is Written: Project 304, 805, an exhibition centred around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who will, while on public view from October the 12th, write out the entire text of the Torah over the course of a full year.
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a Torah scroll , the most holy and important object in Judaism. One year, 62 sheets, 248 columns, 10146 lines and finally 304, 805 letters later, it is written.
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