Torah Scribing: A Recipe for a Living Tradition

[@LikeaBird0]

I am a queer, catholic raised, atheist- but I find this so moving. I do not have any ill will towards the religious. I often envy their beautiful traditions and the fulfillment they get from them. I find this talk, and the very deliberate, purposeful, and loving act of creating the sacred text to be incredibly beautiful.

[@eyesonyou99]

Julie is a treasure. She is a gifted teacher and student which captures the essence of why we are here.

[@Iamlearningtolove]

This is absolutely beautiful. I am not familiar with the culture in general, but I'm a writer, by hand, and I feel something deeply significant in the act of transferring my internal, otherwise unknowable world onto the material plane where it can be seen. It feels Spiritual to me. I am humbled to hear of the intention infused into the Torah and its being handwritten is somehow comforting, almost validating in a way to me. Thank you for sharing this. 💖🙏💖

[@lionreb]

Nice talk. It is interesting to me that Julie's discussion of the value of intention, awareness, purpose in the writing of a Torah is something that a Robot cannot impart any more than a printed Torah text. I recently read an opinion written by the Brejaner Rav who incidentally gave Smicha to my great-grandfather who when asked whether machine-made Matzah was kosher for Passover answered that the machine could not be considered to have the right intention in making the matzah any more than the town idiot could and therefore was not kosher. (town idiot is just one possibility of someone without sufficient intentionality; not meant to be offensive). He may have changed his mind somewhat at a later date.

[@umwhatthistime]

She must be a fan of R.Crumb. 'Cos he'd be a fan of her !!