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MitsyEyedMourning t1_j6k1ucw wrote

Reply to comment by ntbananas in Local Muslim community helps shut down burning of Torah scroll in Sweden by green_flash

You can get scrolls on Amazon for 200.

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iknowyouright t1_j6kihhw wrote

Lol. You can get a fake one for 200.

Real scrolls are handwritten over months or years on kosher animal skin (parchment) by a specially trained scribe.

Minimum 10,000-30,000 dollars for a real scrill

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Terrafire123 t1_j6m2l3p wrote

If a single mistake is made (that is, if a letter is slightly malformed), it can't be erased. Instead, the entire page is discarded.

Therefore, in order to avoid discarding large swatches of text due to a single minor error, it's written on small sheets then stiched together afterwards.

It's a full time job for a whole year by a specially trained person to make one of these. Naturally it's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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frosthowler t1_j6k9ocl wrote

No, you can't. You perhaps can get things scammers call Torah scrolls, but you can't buy a Torah scroll from Amazon. It costs tens of thousands of dollars and is purpose made for synagogues. Perhaps some rich connected Jewish dude can order one, but the anti semite can't get one unless he stole it, and you can't order it online

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