PAGE Love to Torah and commandments may well be tought to a Jewish child through the love to Sefer Torah. Bringing little kids to the synagogue and letting them kiss the velvet cover of the Torah scroll will be curved in their memories for the rest of their life. But of course, dancing around the bimah on the Simchat Torah Festival is the pivotal experience for the Jewish children who inherit the tradition and pass it to the next generation.
Bar mitzvah is, of course, pivotal in terms of Torah learning.
Each Jewish kid has to learn cantillation sings, diacritic signs and the text itself in order to be able to chant a portion of the text. The text on the parchment does not have any signs - nor marks of the ends and beginnings of the periods. Therefore a kid needs to master a wealth of skills before he can fulfill the task of chanting. Thus Sefer Torah serves his guide to the both worlds - that of learning Torah and adulthood.