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What Female Scribes Can Teach Us about Transmitting Torah This Shavuot

What Female Scribes Can Teach Us about Transmitting Torah This Shavuot
jemerman
May 26, 2022

I first inquired about becoming a soferet in my first year of rabbinical school in Jerusalem. I had come into rabbinical school with the technical expertise of a printmaker and a bookmaker, and I was eager to immerse myself in all things Torah, including its physical creation. Unfortunately, even in 2008, I could not find a sofer in Jerusalem who would train a woman.


Source: reform judaism