From the Mundane to the Sacred
How Animal Skin Becomes an Object of Kedushah There is something almost startling about the physical ingredients of a Sefer Torah, a pair of tefillin, or a mezuzah. Animal skin. Black ink. Thread. Hair. A writing instrument fashioned from a feather or reed. Nothing about these materials, taken by themselves, seems particularly holy. Yet eventually
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