During the class, a board member came in and she also watched. She contacted the synagogue in Honduras and I sent an e-mail in Spanish. In order to get the scroll to New York, a Honduran convert to Judaism volunteered to hold it on his lap for the duration of a bumpy, six-hour bus ride from Tegucigalpa to the airport at San Pedro Sula, where he gave it to an American businessman who brought it, soaking wet, to Long Island. Understandably, the saga has captured the interest of major television networks who have aired it on local and national news programs. In all my years of learning, I had never experienced a rebbe like him.
Students learn to recognize imperfections in the script and methods of correction.
The laws and customs pertaining to the writing of the letters in the various scrolls and religious articles are also studied.