• Har Sinai Congregation's oldest Torah is over 300 years old, comes from the area that is now the Czech Republic and is written in a very unique script. It is extremely rare and unusual to see a Torah like this today.
• Three of Har Sinai Congregation’s Torahs are close to 100 years old: two come from Germany and one from Russia.
• Two of Har Sinai Congregation’s Torahs are more than 80 years old and come from Lithuania and Poland.
• One of our Torahs is believed to be Har Sinai Congregation’s original Torah from 1842.
• Our Torah with 164 letters to complete is being called the “old-new” Torah, because since it has not been completed and dedicated, it is “new” even though it is 100 years old.

Did you know?

• The Torah has 304,805 letters and 245 columns with 42 lines in each column.
• The Torah is handwritten on approximately 62 pieces of parchment called “Klaf.”
• Each Torah is handwritten in special deep black ink made from powdered gall nuts, copper sulfate crystals, gum arabic, and water by the very few families that know the guarded recipe.
• The Torah contains no vowels or punctuation.
• The Torah must be exact and have no errors.