Magnetic, spiritual, ancient and contemporary -- a Torah scroll connects Jews of every stripe to every other Jew of the past, present and future. Looking into a Torah scroll is very much like standing before the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Something deep inside you says, "There it is!" It has been assaulted, defiled, even neglected -- yet it stands unchanged forever. We feel its power, yet few of us understand it. Magnetic, spiritual, ancient and contemporary -- a Torah scroll, known in Hebrew as a Sefer Torah, connects Jews of every stripe to every other Jew of the past, present...
