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| 250 Year Old Torah Scroll |
Jesus said not
one jot or tittle of the Torah would change until heaven and earth disappeared.
A jot is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. A tittle is a tiny
decoration above a letter.
The Torah is a
hand written copy of the first five books of the Old Testament written in
Hebrew with a feather quill on calf skins which are then stitched together and
rolled into a scroll. The Ten Commandments are recorded twice in the Torah, in
Exodus (pictured above) and in Deuteronomy.
It takes about
one year to make a Torah. A trained scribe makes an identical copy of an older
Torah. Each Torah has 304,805 letters. It must contain no errors, no missing
letters, no added letters, no misshaped letters, no letter may touch another
letter. Mistakes are corrected by scraping off the ink with a knife and
inserting the correction.
The Torah is
the most important text in Judaism and is read daily in synagogues around the
world. The community of listeners makes sure the written text is accurate. If
listeners detect an error while the Torah is read, the text must be checked
against an older Torah. If an error is found, it must be corrected within
thirty days.
Scrolls are
made to last for generations. If they are read for an average of 250 years
before being retired, then just thirteen scrolls takes you back to the first
Torah, penned by Moses approximately 3,300 years ago! The oldest Torah still in
use is over 700 years old. It would be only four scrolls away from ones read in
synagogues around the time of Jesus!
The Ten
Commandments may have disappeared from the public square. But, through
the amazing accuracy of the text in each copy of the Torah, Jesus made sure
they would not disappear from the moral sphere of life. From the album “A
ChorusBook” this video is music overlaid on slides.
You can
get print (PDF) and/or digital (MusicXML™) sheet music for God’s Laws.
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| Click here for print sheet music. |
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(MusicXML™ is
the standard open format for sharing digital sheet music.
Check the help
files in your music notation app for directions on importing MusicXML™ files.)
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Click here to
read about the accuracy of the Torah text.
Click here to read about the reliability of the New
Testament text.
Click here to
read about the world’s oldest Torah scroll still in use.
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