#torahscrolls — Public Fediverse posts
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"The #Samaritans are different. They are a tiny community of around 800 souls, divided between #Holon and #KiryatLuza near #Nablus. They trace their ancestry back to the ancient #Israelites and possess a version of the #Torah that differs only slightly from our own. Their central point of departure from mainstream #Judaism is their belief that #MountGerizim, rather than #Jerusalem, is the divinely chosen place, together with their rejection of the Oral Law and #rabbinic tradition.
As I stood among them, watching ancient rituals performed with immense sincerity, hearing #Hebrew prayers and seeing #Torahscrolls carried with reverence, I could not help feeling that I was encountering not strangers, but long-lost cousins.
Their Torah is, with only relatively minor differences, our Torah. #Abraham, #Isaac, #Jacob, and #Moses are their ancestors no less than ours. Yet somewhere in the distant past, our paths diverged."
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"The #Samaritans are different. They are a tiny community of around 800 souls, divided between #Holon and #KiryatLuza near #Nablus. They trace their ancestry back to the ancient #Israelites and possess a version of the #Torah that differs only slightly from our own. Their central point of departure from mainstream #Judaism is their belief that #MountGerizim, rather than #Jerusalem, is the divinely chosen place, together with their rejection of the Oral Law and #rabbinic tradition.
As I stood among them, watching ancient rituals performed with immense sincerity, hearing #Hebrew prayers and seeing #Torahscrolls carried with reverence, I could not help feeling that I was encountering not strangers, but long-lost cousins.
Their Torah is, with only relatively minor differences, our Torah. #Abraham, #Isaac, #Jacob, and #Moses are their ancestors no less than ours. Yet somewhere in the distant past, our paths diverged."
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"#ANU - #Museum of the #Jewish People is displaying rare parchment sheets from a #medieval #Spanish #Torahscroll for the first time, offering a glimpse into Jewish life and scribal traditions in #Spain before the expulsion.
The fragments, which include #Genesis chapters 28-46, are among only five early Spanish #Torahscrolls known today, the museum said. They have been preserved in exceptional condition for hundreds of years and are being shown ahead of #Shavuot, the festival marking the giving of the #Torah.
The scroll was written in ink on parchment in a square Spanish #Hebrew script typical of the period. Carbon dating places it in the late 13th or early 14th century, making it about 700 years old.
Few Spanish Torah scrolls from before the expulsion have survived, especially compared with medieval #Ashkenazi scrolls."
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1vq4bnygg#google_vignette
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"#ANU - #Museum of the #Jewish People is displaying rare parchment sheets from a #medieval #Spanish #Torahscroll for the first time, offering a glimpse into Jewish life and scribal traditions in #Spain before the expulsion.
The fragments, which include #Genesis chapters 28-46, are among only five early Spanish #Torahscrolls known today, the museum said. They have been preserved in exceptional condition for hundreds of years and are being shown ahead of #Shavuot, the festival marking the giving of the #Torah.
The scroll was written in ink on parchment in a square Spanish #Hebrew script typical of the period. Carbon dating places it in the late 13th or early 14th century, making it about 700 years old.
Few Spanish Torah scrolls from before the expulsion have survived, especially compared with medieval #Ashkenazi scrolls."
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1vq4bnygg#google_vignette