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sefer
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sefer [ˈsɛfɛr ˈsɛɪfɛr]
n Judaism
1. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) In full sefer torah the scrolls of the Law
2. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) any book of Hebrew religious literature
[from Hebrew, literally: book]


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Byline: By Crystal Deane SOLIHULL witnessed a dance with a difference when a specially commissioned pounds 30,000 Sefer Torah scroll was waltzed down Monastery Drive.
Another later example is documented by the Rema (Rabbi Moshe Isserles, Kracow sixteenth century) who writes in his gloss to the Shulchan Aruch that women took it upon themselves not to look at the Sefer Torah or even not to come to synagogue when they were menstruating even though this is not something that is prohibited by legal precedent.
Commissioned at a cost of $36,000, the Sefer Torah to be dedicated today was written by Rabbi Betzalel Yakont, a scribe who lives in Israel.
 
 
 
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