Jewish Children in Queens Learn Ancient Method of Writing Jewish Documents

May 27, 2001

Source: Newsday

On May 27, 2001, Newsday that a group of Jewish children from Queens recently learned "the highly skilled art of writing - by hand, letter by letter - holy Jewish documents. It was a timely lesson and they experienced it first-hand from Rabbi Yehuda Clapman, a Torah sofer, or scribe, who was visiting their Hebrew school in honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuoth - when the Jewish nation received the Ten Commandments...Jewish law requires that the Torah, and other Hebrew religious documents...must be handwritten, and that each and every letter must conform to rigid uniformity...'We're trying to bring to the Jewish people their heritage,' said Clapman."