Mah Omeret HaSoferet - מה אומרת הסופרת

בס''ד Q: Hi Avielah, I have a question. In Ki Tisa we read about the Luchot with the Aseret Dibrot originally written michtav Elohim...

בס''ד “And All Your Children Shall Be Learned: Women and the Study of Torah in Jewish Law and History" – Shoshana Pantel Zolty...

בס''ד When I was certified to write Sifrei Torah back in 2003 after many years of work and study, the client for whom I was to write...

בס''ד Thanks to Andrea for sending me this link: please see the comment I left (I don't like to take credit for what I didn'...

בס''ד I had a question after last Shabbat from an overseas client, which I found of great interest and would like to share here: hi...

בס''ד לֹא בְחַיִל, וְלֹא בְכֹחַ--כִּי אִם-בְּרוּחִי... Lo ve-hayil ve-lo ve-choah, ki im be-ruhi . . . Not by power, not by might; b...

בס''ד Be-reshit/Genesis 37:12 reads: וַיֵּלְכוּ, אֶחָיו, לִרְעוֹת אֶת-צֹאן אֲבִיהֶם, בִּשְׁכֶם And once, his brothers went to pastur...

בס''ד My friend Rory & I did these t-shirt designs together - ok, all I did was the Hebrew script, my own design called "Qe...

בס''ד Classic and practical booklet written by Brilliant Sofer Husband, Mordechai Pinchas Sofer ST"M, a few years back to help ...

בס''ד Be-reyshit/Genesis 33:4, Parshat Va-yishlach has a scribal peculiarity in the word וַיִּשָּׁקֵהוּ va-yishaqeyhu , "and ki...

בס''ד This month, six years ago, my Globe And Mail interview with Cori Howard: (pls note - I'm not the first woman to be a sofer...

בס''ד In this week's parsha, Va-Yeytzey Be-reyshit/Genesis 30:42, in a Chassidic Sefer Torah one will find an enlarged letter Fe...

בס''ד In Bereyshit/Genesis 27:46, Parshat Tol'dot we have a letter Quf (ק) which is written very tiny - it's also the leadin...

בס''ד וַיְהִי, כַּאֲשֶׁר כִּלָּה יִצְחָק לְבָרֵךְ אֶת-יַעֲקֹב, וַיְהִי אַךְ יָצֹא יָצָא יַעֲקֹב, מֵאֵת פְּנֵי יִצְחָק אָבִיו; וְעֵשָ...

בס''ד This week's Torah reading has another diminished letter - Khaf - which tells us something of the complexities of family re...

בס''ד Be-reyshit/Genesis 19:33, Parshat Va-yeira relates the time when Lot is drunkenly seduced by his own daughters, after they esc...

בס''ד In Be-reyshit/Genesis 18:9, Parshat Va-yeira (Plaut p.123, Cohen p.87, Hertz p.64, Sforno p.87, JPS p.25, Jerusalem p.17, Ston...

בס''ד Be-reyshit/Genesis 16:5, Parshat Lekh Lekha has a letter Yud which is naqud , dotted above, in the word "u-veynekha"...

בס''ד BS"D New York City's underground fashion's latest darling, bad-boy wild child Levi Okunov, is dressing women up a...

בס''ד Although there are several peculiar scribal oddities found in this week's Torah portion (according to Yemenite tradition, ...

בס''ד This letter Hey balances out the enlarged Hey which can be found in Parashat Ha'azinu, Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:6. You can ...

בס''ד A scribal post by my husband, Marc Michaels (a.k.a Mordechai Pinchas, sofer stam): So one of my favourite kabbalistic touches ...

בס''ד That would be Yiddish for "Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam..." Thanks to Marie Jaffee for her translation ...

בס''ד In Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:18 there is a letter Yud which is written very small compared to all the rest of the letters. It...

בס''ד The letter Hey of Ha-le-Ad@nai in parashat Ha'azinu, Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:6 is a standard letter written enlarged accor...

בס''ד 30 Elul My Hebrew birthday is tomorrow. Alef Tishrei, or Rosh Ha-Shanah as more people know it. The following is a list of eve...

בס''ד This week's Torah portion (read at Minchah prayers Shabbat Rosh Ha-Shanah) may or may not have an enlarged letter Tzadi (צ...

בס''ד Sefer Ba'al Ha-Turim notes that Devarim/Deuteronomy 29:28 has letters which are מְנֻקָּד menuqad (dotted), despite the g...

בס''ד This week's Parashah, Nitzavim, runs from Devarim/Deuteronomy 29:9 - 30:20. What I'd like to show you in Devarim 29:2...

בס''ד My loose translation of Tehilim/Psalm 27, traditionally recited daily during this Jewish month of Elul prayers... לְדָוִד: ...