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hatam_soferet) wrote2009-09-17 07:19 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2009-09-17 07:19 pm
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I may have said once or twice before that parchment is made from animal skins.
Like this.
Sometimes - depending how much it's bleached - you can still see the pattern of the cow's skin, faintly in the parchment. I think it's rather a lovely effect.
Since a Torah is a couple hundred columns, and since you don't generally get more than half a dozen columns or so per cow, you need rather a lot of cows to make one Torah.
A Megillah, on the other hand, is quite short. And a giraffe is quite long. And has splendid patterns in its skin.
One day someone will hook me up with a giraffe skin and I will get to write a Megillah on it.
I have plenty of more mundane visions for this year, but it doesn't hurt to have a few outrageous dreams, I think. Best of luck with yours. Shanah tovah.
Like this.
Sometimes - depending how much it's bleached - you can still see the pattern of the cow's skin, faintly in the parchment. I think it's rather a lovely effect.
Since a Torah is a couple hundred columns, and since you don't generally get more than half a dozen columns or so per cow, you need rather a lot of cows to make one Torah.
A Megillah, on the other hand, is quite short. And a giraffe is quite long. And has splendid patterns in its skin.
One day someone will hook me up with a giraffe skin and I will get to write a Megillah on it.
I have plenty of more mundane visions for this year, but it doesn't hurt to have a few outrageous dreams, I think. Best of luck with yours. Shanah tovah.