“‘And Now Write this Song for Yourselves:’ The 613th Commandment and the Jewish Sacred Scribal Tradition”
Rabbi Kevin Hale
Rabbi Kevin Hale, a traditionally trained sofer stam (torah scribe) will discuss the mitzvah, or sacred obligation, to write a torah scroll as well as the tools, materials, rituals and techniques that go into their writing and restoration.
Rabbi Hale is an ordained Reconstructionist Rabbi, who trained as a sofer stam under Dr. Rabbi Eric Ray until his death in 2005. Rabbi Hale is the director of the Ray Torah Institute in Leeds, MA, where he works full time as a sofer repairing torahs, writing megillahs and torahs, and teaching.
Co-sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.
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