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…Exacting Standards Local Torah scribe follows directives given by Moses. BERL FALBAUM Special to the Jewish News S o you think your computer is too slow? You're impatient waiting a few seconds for it to respond? Well, consider having to write a new Torah that consists of more than 300,000 individual letters, all done by hand with a feather and ink What's more, each letter must be very exact, some- times with tiny sharp edges or rounded cor...…
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