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In 3442 (320 BCE), Ezra the Scribe died. The Talmud states that 8, 9, and 10 Tevet were days of tragedy The Sages wished to declare all three fast days, but a three-day fast was considered too difficult for people. While the Talmud states that the tragedy of 9 Tevet is unknown, some say that the tragedy was Ezra's passing. See here.
Most influential scribe of his generation (Post-war) Mordechai Pinchas: 20th and 21st centuries UK modern orthodox scribe www.sofer.co.uk: Aviel Barclay: 20th and 21st centuries Canada, first certified soferet of modern times Jen Taylor Friedman: 20th and 21st centuries First Torah by a soferet of modern times Julie Seltzer: 20th and 21st centuries
Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...
The Craft of the Scribe: 475–479: A Satirical Letter: Papyrus Anastasi I: 3.3: Praise of Pi-Ramessu (Papyrus Anastasi I) 471: In Praise of the City Ramses: 3.4: A Report of Escaped Laborers (Papyrus Anastasi V) 259: The Pursuit of Runaway Slaves: 3.5: A Report of Bedouin (Papyrus Anastasi VI) 259: The Report of a Frontier Official: Judicial ...
Timelines for Jewish History. The Dinur Center & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Interactive, searchable, filterable Jewish history timeline from the Gannopedia – Timeline from Abraham to the end of the Talmud i.e. 500 CE. Timeline for the History of Judaism; The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Jewish history timelines" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A Middle Eastern sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.
Ktav Stam (Hebrew: כְּתַב־סְתָ״ם ) is the specific Jewish traditional writing with which holy scrolls (Sifrei Kodesh), tefillin and mezuzot are written. Stam is a Hebrew acronym denoting these writings, as indicated by the gershayim (״ ) punctuation mark. One who writes such articles is called a sofer stam.