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MAY 17, 2018 | The Jewish Home
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Sefer Torah Lessons at YOSS ECC
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he talmidim at Yeshiva of South Shore’s Early Childhood Center were treated to a special presentation about the making of a Sefer Torah in advance of Shavuos. Rabbi Betzalel Katkovsky, a sofer from Philadelphia, gave the boys an in-depth lesson on all the materials that are involved in the process. He showed them how real cow hide is used in the making of the klaf. He also taught them that the kosher ink
used to write the Torah is made from a special nut. Rabbi Katkovsky even demonstrated how mezuzahs and tefillin are made. The boys were especially excited to see their own names in the Torah and they joined him in writing the last letter. Upon returning to their classrooms, the talmidim were eager to practice writing Alef Bais letters, with ink and a feather, the way the sofer taught them.