Because the work is so tedious and precise, it takes a year for a Torah to be completed at a cost of $70,000. A Rabbi can only read from a scroll that has been handwritten, said Steinmetz.

A Torah scroll, the most sacred item in Judaism, contains 300,000 letters of the first five books of the Bible. It is written entirely by hand with a feather, black ink on parchment made of animal ...

SAN ANTONIO - – The Torah scroll is the most sacred object in Judaism. The scrolls contain the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew bible, read aloud at prayer services and holidays.