Whilst much of this site is either my own work or sourced from the halachic texts,  I am very much indebted to my teacher Vivian Solomon z’’l for his introducing me to the largely hidden world of sofrut and also to Dr. Eric Ray for the initial and continuing inspiration and for his sketches on quill cutting and sewing. Photos and scanned stuff are mostly my own images but occasionally I have used images from other sites or books where I am unable to obtain my own (for example pictures of k’laf preparation (as this no longer takes place in Britain) and some images for tefillin production) and I am very grateful to these sources.

Whilst I think I host the only British website on sofrut, there are a number of excellent American and Israeli sites that I have visited in my researches. Other sites on sofrut worth paying a visit to are:

Master sofer Eliezer Adam’s website Machon Melechet Shamayim www.soferstam.org
You can also read more about the resources available from the Machon on this website by clicking here.

http://www.mezuzahdoctor.com
http://www.torahscribe.com
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/orgs/stam/index.htm
http://www.stam.net
http://www.tefillin.co.il now with an amazing streaming video detailing tefillin production!

Rabbi Akiva Garber’s excellent site:
http://www.jerusalemscribe.com
http://www.campsci.com/mezuzah/index.htm
http://www.torah.org/learning/halacha/S32.html
Please let me know if any links stop working, or of any errors that you discover in the site itself.

All these links will take you away from my site, so please come back again!

Mordechai Pinchas

If you have enjoyed this site and learnt some Torah here, then an ideal way to say thank you would be to make a small (or even large) donation to a very worthwhile charity, the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre (a 500 bed major hospital at the centre of Jerusalem).

If you're in the UK, you can contact:

E-mail: office@shaarezedek.org.uk

or outside the UK, you can go to their website www.szmc.org.il and donate through there.

If you would like to find out more about Reform or Liberal Judaism you can visit visit the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (RSGB) or the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS) websites.