Tuesday 6 May 2008

Rabbi Rothman said I should put this up... and you never argue with a rabbi.


A few years ago a new piece of liturgy was created to commemorate the Shoah and give Jews around the world a standard text to use each year on Yom Hashoah. Megillat Hashoah (the Holocaust scroll) presented a six chapter account of those dark days in a small booklet.

Jews throughout the ages have told their stories using parchment and quills and so Sofer STaM Marc Michaels was commissioned to turn this booklet into a kasher scroll that could be read by the community.

Drawing on the power of the letters and scribal tradiotions to create a visual Midrash that adds further depth and meaning to the text, the scroll has now been turned into a tikkun - a copyists guide - explaining the journey of the booklet to scroll and detailing the rules so that scribes over the world may creat scrolls. Scholars and laypeople alike will find this book a fascinating jouney on the creation of a the first new tikkun in thousands of years and hopefully the establishment of a new minhag to help ensure that the Shoah is remembered for all generations

Tikkun Megillat Hashoah is written by Marc Michaels, Sofer STaM with the authorisation of the Rabbinic Assembly and the Schecter Institute. It is a full colour booklet containing the entire unpointed text of the Megillat Hashoah and explanatory articles and notes. Available through www.lulu.com for £21.82 plus postage and packaging. http://www.lulu.com/content/871367

New scrolls can be commissioned through the sofer by contacting soferstam@ntlworld.com or visiting www.sofer.co.uk

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