13th -14th century Torah Scroll

13th -14th century Torah Scroll An extremely important scroll of utmost rarity; the earliest example of the complete Yemenite Pentateuch tradition
Containing the text of the Pentateuch and written by hand on specially prepared animal skins by a trained scribe, the Torah Scroll is the most sacred ritual artifact of the Jewish faith. The execution of a ritually fit scroll depends on a great many factors. In addition to the rules concerning the materials to be used there are numerous requirements concerning the actual text of the Torah. These are authoritatively detailed in the Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive code of law written by Moses Maimonides in the 12th century. Among the issues Maimonides addresses are majuscular and miniscular letters, the shapes of particular letters, the formatting of specific sections of the biblical text, the layout of columns and certain individual lines, the demarcation of each paragraph as either "open" or "closed," the "dotting" of certain letters and the spelling of certain words as plene or defective. Maimonides cites the Aleppo Codex, written by the 10th century Masorete, Aaron ben Moses ben Asher as authoritative in all these matters.
Although Maimonides was highly respected by Jews the world over, his support of the Yemenite community resulted in his achieving an almost saint-like status. Consequently, Maimonides' halakhic rulings were venerated and adhered to with a particular passion amongst Yemenite Jews.
Title: Torah Scroll
Country of Origin: Yemen

Age: Scroll is undated but has been examined by experts and is estimated to have originated in the 13th-14th Century. Evidence for this includes style of Hebrew alphabetic characters, and the leather used.

Size: Scroll is approximately 20" high with 221 columns of 50-52 lines of text per column.

Condition: Wear includes some stains, a few unstable letters, expected breaks and age holes, antique letter repairs (to preserve kosher status), kosher minor small patches, some holes to edges, some tears, and a few places in which the ink is hard to read due to the darkened parchment. Includes several-hundred-year-old restoration marks. However, it is generally clear to read and considering age, wear is very minor. Most sheets are still tightly sewn together.

Description: Handwritten on red deer parchment called "gvil," this scroll has dark ink lettering and contains all five books of Moses, handwritten on the leather by one scribe, except for a few sheets which have been used as replacements throughout the years. Scroll is not a compilation, but is also not guaranteed to be kosher. The unusual letter shapes used to help determine the scroll's age include (1) Hebrew letter alef has different legs (2) Hebrew letters zain and nun has legs from the side (zain from the right) (3) Hebrew letter chet is the old Rashi style (4) Many double pei (5) No tags. A scroll with similar lettering style sold on Sotheby's in December 2007 for $193K. http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159415173

Accompanied with - Certificate of Authenticity from the Christian Heritage Museum
An extremely important scroll of utmost rarity; the earliest example of the complete Yemenite Pentateuch tradition
Containing the text of the Pentateuch and written by hand on specially prepared animal skins by a trained scribe, the Torah Scroll is the most sacred ritual artifact of the Jewish faith. The execution of a ritually fit scroll depends on a great many factors. In addition to the rules concerning the materials to be used there are numerous requirements concerning the actual text of the Torah. These are authoritatively detailed in the Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive code of law written by Moses Maimonides in the 12th century. Among the issues Maimonides addresses are majuscular and miniscular letters, the shapes of particular letters, the formatting of specific sections of the biblical text, the layout of columns and certain individual lines, the demarcation of each paragraph as either "open" or "closed," the "dotting" of certain letters and the spelling of certain words as plene or defective. Maimonides cites the Aleppo Codex, written by the 10th century Masorete, Aaron ben Moses ben Asher as authoritative in all these matters.
Although Maimonides was highly respected by Jews the world over, his support of the Yemenite community resulted in his achieving an almost saint-like status. Consequently, Maimonides' halakhic rulings were venerated and adhered to with a particular passion amongst Yemenite Jews.
Title: Torah Scroll
Country of Origin: Yemen

The books i read.

I love to read. i never use to until...last year, and since then i have gone book happy and read over 15 books in one year. I love novels that hold you on the end of your set....well most of the time i do. there is one book i read that did put me at the end on my set but it was very dark. Ted Dekker, is one of my favorite author's and he is really good at telling the story, but he wrote a book called Adam, and that is the dark book i had talked about. I read it in 2-3 days, and i felt really weird after finishing Reading it. But i love some of his other books. like the lost books ( 4 books all together) very good. and iam looking forward to reading his newest book Boneman's daughters. Right now iam reading angela hunt's books. she is very good story teller as well, just her books are more about the heart matters and Ted dekker is a hold your breath kinda author.

I have read Angela's book unspoken, very very good. it made me cry. and no book has ever made me cry. I read that in 1 week. right now iam reading another one of her books, that iam finding it very hard to read . The pearl. This woman loses her 5 year old son in an accented and shes telling the story, when there at the funalr and how she is acting...every time i stop reading, and i put my book down. i think about my sweet little boy, and i have a mind that wonders sooo much, and i start thinking about , what if that would happened to my Lucious. i started crying my eyes out thinking, at Lucious funeral all i could say is how every day he would pray that Jesus would play transforms with him, and that he would be having the time of his life with Jesus playing his games with him. i cred so much that i went and claimed in bed with him and held him. Praying that i dont lose my son. I think iam going to hold off on reading anymore of that book and go get another one. witch is fine...Angela Hunt has a lot of books out.

anywho....until next time.

Why i hate winter in manitoba.

LOL ok so today there is a big winters Storm out and the road are cove rd in ice and then snow dreafs on top of that. and you cant see were your going because its its all WHITE OUT.

we tryed to go to winnipeg today but had to turn around. yesterday we had no snow, only grass. it was so nice to look at and feel that spring is Finley here. then we wake up to 4 inch of snow EVERYWHERE. iam sitting at my table on facebook and i look out my window that faces the hwy and i see a van with the 4 ways on and iam think all the ice and snow on the road, and the big ditch's on either side are full to the top with water, flowing very fast. i start to think that we should go help. but i cant because i dont have my full license , so i go to ask jason to help them because i can see people walking around the van. and he wont get out of bed. what is with men. why can't they help people in need. iam 5 1/2 months pregnant and i wanted to go help them. its makes me mad. and he gets mad at me for always wanting to help people.

all well, no use me bitching about it, God will just have to work on him.

anyways. it looks as though we will be stuck at home for a few days. hope it all goes good.

My high and low of the day.

OK today has been and on /off kinda day.
the day started off ok, besides the rain and gray sky.
but then Jason called and said he was coming home because he
is sick. so he comes home but first he goes and gets the internet for our
laptop. having internet is nice to have but its kinda slow. and i still haven't heard
from my brother about his ex girlfriends ultrasound. so i feel left in the dark abot all that.
then we go to town because neither me or Jason wants to make dinner so we go out again to
spent money on food. I think it hasn't been such a bad day. i think its my body reacting to the kinda day it is out side. on cloudy rainy days i feel so blah and bummed out. and its going to be like this all week. my goodness. OH and a really good thing that happened today was that jason got a great new job.. closer to home. in morris so more then likely we will move to morris next summer. so that was my day. i hope that tomorrow is better.
from heather