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[NH] NHC afternoon class: Hands-On Torah
Aug. 13th, 2007 12:41 pmAs always, if there are terms that aren't familiar, feel free to ask; I'm not up for major footnotery.
Also, there are verbal descriptions of things that might be uncomfortable reading for vegetarians.
My afternoon class was about the making of sifrei Torah (and, indirectly, the other things a sofer STaM writes, mezuzot and tefillin), taught by Linda Motzkin (At the institute, no one used their honorifics, which I found interesting. She's the rabbi of a congregation in Saratoga Springs, sharing the job with her husband, but since no one tended to call her 'rabbi', it feels more appropriate here to use her name without the title. She was also a calligrapher for years before learning sofrut from R. Eric Ray, who was niftar two years ago.).
( She meant it when she called it hands-on. )
It's fascinating, all of it.
Also, there are verbal descriptions of things that might be uncomfortable reading for vegetarians.
My afternoon class was about the making of sifrei Torah (and, indirectly, the other things a sofer STaM writes, mezuzot and tefillin), taught by Linda Motzkin (At the institute, no one used their honorifics, which I found interesting. She's the rabbi of a congregation in Saratoga Springs, sharing the job with her husband, but since no one tended to call her 'rabbi', it feels more appropriate here to use her name without the title. She was also a calligrapher for years before learning sofrut from R. Eric Ray, who was niftar two years ago.).
( She meant it when she called it hands-on. )
It's fascinating, all of it.