Sefer Torah

[se-fer taw-rah, sey-fuhr toh-ruh, toi-ruh, sey-fer tohr-uh, tawr-uh]

noun

Hebrew.

plural

Sifrei Torah ,

plural

Sefer Torahs .

1. Sepher Torah.

Example Sentences

The Torah on the Moon project, based in Tel Aviv, has been courting private firms to deliver a handwritten Jewish scroll called a sefer Torah to the lunar surface.

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Last week, the engineering arm of the European Space Agency confirmed that it has been commissioned to test the space-hardiness of the capsule that would contain the sefer Torah.

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“The sefer Torah has unique symbolic value and is nowadays the most sacred object in Judaism,” says Nicholas de Lange, a researcher in Jewish and Hebrew studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

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New Scientist writes that the European Space Agency's engineering arm in the Netherlands confirmed that it was commissioned to test the Sefer Torah's capsule.

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He has to be very careful, because even a single missing, damaged or misshapen letter invalidates the entire Sefer Torah.

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