The Torah Scroll is one of the most prized possessions of the Jew. It commands great respect and reverence and is afforded a degree of kedushah (sanctity) not matched by any other ritual object. It symbolizes the uniqueness of our religious values and the sense of our culture. Ten Jews and a Torah Scroll comprise an integral Jewish community, being an indispensable prerogative for its existence.

     To become a congregation a group of observant Jews will need a scroll of Torah; reciprocally, Torah needs Jews who corroborate its presence in the world by writing it, reading it and learning from it.

     Torah Scroll provides a Jew with the holiness, which transforms him into a communal being. Read throughout the Jewish world from a parchment scroll, Torah Scroll is a unifying factor of the Jewish nation. Being read and heard by people of all ages it transmits Judaism from generation to generation.

     The Torah is, in effect, the constitution of the Jewish people.