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soferor sopherIn Judaism, a scholar-teacher of the 5th–2nd centuries BC who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible. The first sofer was Ezra, who, with his disciples, initiated a tradition of rabbinical scholarship that is still central in Judaism. This tradition of scholarship arose to meet the specific need of applying the idealistic aspirations of the Torah and oral tradition to everyday life, thus in effect codifying Mosaic law. The soferim were important historically for having fixed the canon of the Hebrew scriptures. Later the term sofer came to refer to one who taught the Bible to children or who was qualified to write Torah scrolls. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Newcomers -- including Booth, Rick Schroder, Chad Lowe, Regina King, Rena Sofer and James Cromwell -- were a bit more talkative. According to Rabbi Azriel Siff, spiritual leader of Congregation Chasam Sopher, there are only about 60 sofers in the United States and 300 worldwide. The BSQUARE SmartBuild reference design for XScale Microarchitecture is targeted to help device manufacturers meet aggressive time-to-market, design cost and performance goals by offering easy product integration into mobile and embedded devices," said Yuval Sofer, M-Systems' associate vice president of business development. |
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