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  • From: "John W. Leys" <eliyahu5733 AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 5 scrolls or 1
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:19:29 -0400

On 8/17/05, Jim West <jwest AT highland.net> wrote:

> It would have been physically impossible to contain the entire Torah
> on one scroll. Impossible. The thing would have been unusable.


Not true. The entire Torah is contained on a single scroll in modern
Synagogues. Its heavy, but not unusable. Why would the same not be
true of ancient scrolls?

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!שלום
John W. Leys

"We do not worship the soil. The land of Israel without the God of
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