Sefer Torah

[ Sephardic Hebrew se-fer taw-rah; Ashkenazic Hebrew sey-fuhr toh-ruh, toi-ruh; English sey-fer tohr-uh, tawr-uh ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural Si·frei To·rah [see-, frey, taw-, rah, si, -f, r, ey , toh, -, r, uh, toi, -, r, uh], English Sefer Torahs.

1. Sepher Torah.

Example Sentences

The Torah on the Moon project, based in Tel Aviv, has been courting private firms to deliver a handwritten Jewish scroll called a sefer Torah to the lunar surface.

From Washington Post

Last week, the engineering arm of the European Space Agency confirmed that it has been commissioned to test the space-hardiness of the capsule that would contain the sefer Torah.

From Washington Post

“The sefer Torah has unique symbolic value and is nowadays the most sacred object in Judaism,” says Nicholas de Lange, a researcher in Jewish and Hebrew studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

From Washington Post

New Scientist writes that the European Space Agency's engineering arm in the Netherlands confirmed that it was commissioned to test the Sefer Torah's capsule.

From The Verge

He has to be very careful, because even a single missing, damaged or misshapen letter invalidates the entire Sefer Torah.

From BBC