The Nail at the Center of the Torah

The confirmation came first. The uncertainty came second.
And now we have counted for ourselves.

What Every Sofer Knew

Every Torah scroll in the world is handwritten by a sofer, a scribe whose entire vocation is built around the absolute sanctity of every letter. A sofer spends between nine months and a year writing a single Torah scroll. He immerses in the mikveh before writing each occurrence of the divine name. If a single letter is missing or malformed the entire scroll is unkosher, invalid, unusable, set...    see more >>

ADDENDUM

The Age of the Text. The Script That Was Changed.
The Command That Trapped the Changers.

Three questions the main document did not answer. They need to be answered.
Because the answers make the nail even more unmovable than it already was.

How Old Is the Text?

The main document referred to fifteen hundred years as the age of the scribal tradition preserving the enlarged Vav. That figure requires clarification. The Talmudic record of the Vav as center, Kiddushin 30a, is approximately fifteen hundred to seventeen hundred years old. The Talmud is not the text. The text is vastly older.

The Torah, Genesis through Deuteronomy, was written by Moshe (Moses)...    see more >>