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If Only the Scrolls Could Talk

The sun rose over Mount Sinai, illuminating the other-worldly landscape and imbuing the unusually thin parchment with a translucent glow. Reciting the Ten Commandments on the spot in Egypt that represents perhaps the best guess of where God, according to tradition, revealed the law to Moses amounted to a sort of homecoming for a 200-year-old Torah scroll, recalled Rabbi Marcia Prager.

A decade ago, the Mount Airy religious leader and her husband, Jack Kessler, a cantor, led an interfaith trip focusing on the themes of slavery and freedom. The mission began in Cairo, continued on to Sinai, and ended with a Passover seder in Jerusalem.

At each stop, participants read from the well-traveled scroll. But that Exodus re-enactment represented only a tiny slice of one Torah's journey through history, tragedy and rebirth.

"This scroll has an extraordinary story, much of which we can't know. I wish the parchment and ink could tell its own tale," said Prager....
Read entire article at Jewish Exponent