Photo gallery: Commissioning a new Torah scroll

Chabad Center for Jewish Life commissioned a scribe from Israel to write a new Torah scroll, which is dedicated in honor of the KU community.

photo by: John Young

Lawrence resident David Greenbaum, left, watches Rabbi Berel Sosover use a quill pen to carefully ink one of the first letters of a newly commissioned Torah scroll Sunday afternoon at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 1203 W. 19th Street. The Chabad Center commissioned a scribe from Israel to write the Torah scroll, which is dedicated in honor of the KU community. After today’s event, the scroll will be sent to Israel to be completed. Writing a Torah scroll is an important aspect of the Jewish faith, dating back 3,300 years. When completed, the Torah scroll will be comprised of approximately 63 sheets of parchment and contain 304,805 individual letters. Care must be taken when writing a Torah scroll because a single error voids the entire scroll. Chabad Center director, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, said he hopes to have another event in February celebrating the completion and return of the Torah scroll to Lawrence.

photo by: John Young

Chabad Center of Jewish Life director, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, left, along with Rabbi Berel Sosover, carefully inks the first letter of a newly commissioned Torah scroll on behalf of Elliot Tamir Sunday afternoon at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 1203 W. 19th. The Chabad Center commissioned a scribe from Israel to write the Torah scroll, which is dedicated in honor of the KU community. After today’s event, the scroll will be sent to Israel to be completed. Writing a Torah scroll is an important aspect of the Jewish faith, dating back 3,300 years. When completed, the Torah scroll will be comprised of approximately 63 sheets of parchment and contain 304,805 individual letters. Care must be taken when writing a Torah scroll because a single error voids the entire scroll. Rabbi Tiechtel said he hopes to have another event in February celebrating the completion and return of the Torah scroll to Lawrence.

photo by: John Young

Modern technology meets millennia old tradition as a tablet records Rabbi Berel Sosover using a quill pen to carefully ink one of the first letters of a newly commissioned Torah scroll Sunday afternoon at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 1203 W. 19th Street. The Chabad Center commissioned a scribe from Israel to write the Torah scroll, which is dedicated in honor of the KU community. After today’s event, the scroll will be sent to Israel to be completed. Writing a Torah scroll is an important aspect of the Jewish faith, dating back 3,300 years. When completed, the Torah scroll will be comprised of approximately 63 sheets of parchment and contain 304,805 individual letters. Care must be taken when writing a Torah scroll because a single error voids the entire scroll. Chabad Center director, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, said he hopes to have another event in February celebrating the completion and return of the Torah scroll to Lawrence.

photo by: John Young

Rabbi Berel Sosover uses a quill pen to carefully ink one of the first letters of a newly commissioned Torah scroll Sunday afternoon at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 1203 W. 19th Street. The Chabad Center commissioned a scribe from Israel to write the Torah scroll, which is dedicated in honor of the KU community. After today’s event, the scroll will be sent to Israel to be completed. Writing a Torah scroll is an important aspect of the Jewish faith, dating back 3,300 years. When completed, the Torah scroll will be comprised of approximately 63 sheets of parchment and contain 304,805 individual letters. Care must be taken when writing a Torah scroll because a single error voids the entire scroll. Chabad Center director, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, said he hopes to have another event in February celebrating the completion and return of the Torah scroll to Lawrence.