Editing Torah scroll (section)

==Commandment to write a scroll==
{{Further|The Mitzvah to Write a Torah Scroll}}
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It is a religious duty or ''[[mitzvah]]'' for every Jewish male to either write or have written for him a Torah scroll. Of the 613 commandments, one – the 82nd as enumerated by [[Rashi]], and the final as it occurs in the text the [[Book of Deuteronomy]] ({{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|31:19}}) – is that every Jewish male should write a Torah scroll in his lifetime.  This is law number 613 of 613 in the list of Laws of the Torah as recorded by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in his book "Biblical Literacy", 1st edition, New York: Morrow 1997, p.&nbsp;592: "The commandment that each Jew should write a Torah scroll during his lifetime."

It is considered a tremendous merit to write (or commission the writing of) a Torah scroll, and a significant honour to have a Torah scroll written in one's honour or memory.<ref>Rabbi [[Eliezer Melamed]] [https://ph.yhb.org.il/07-04-01/ The Mitzvah to Write a Torah Scroll] in [[Peninei Halakha]] in Hebrew</ref>