Members of the Jacksonville Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to honor Rabbi Yaakov Fisch with one of Judaism’s most sacred gifts: a newly written Sefer Torah.
Hundreds of families and congregants from Etz Chaim Synagogue took part in a procession through the streets of Mandarin, celebrating the completion of the handwritten Torah scroll — a painstaking process that took 18 months to complete.
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The scroll was commissioned in honor of Rabbi Fisch’s decades of leadership, service, and support of the Jewish community, both locally and around the world.
Writing a Sefer Torah is considered the final and one of the most demanding of the 613 mitzvot [good deeds] in the Torah. Each scroll must be written letter by letter and word by word by a trained scribe, totaling 304,805 letters…