Times obituary for Rabbi Jacobs

The Times July 04, 2006

Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs
July 17, 1920 - July 1, 2006

( Incorruptible and widely esteemed scholar whose career was abruptly derailed by the Chief Rabbinate )

Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, CBE, was born on July 17, 1920. He died on July 1, 2006, aged 85.

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I thought that bringing my Torah to the UK would be a really smart move, because I'd be able to work on it in a cool temperate clime with balmy breezes drifting about me. But no - now it's boiling hot here as well, and Brits don't do air-conditioning. Boiling hot, as I've said before, is bad sofrut weather, because your hands are a) warm and b) damp, and putting them anywhere near parchment in that state is a Bad Move.

So I'm doing some translating instead - more Lishkat ha-Sofer - and I'll do some writing when the sun goes down.