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Wikipedia's article on the sofer, the Jewish ritual scribe, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on the sofer, the Jewish ritual scribe, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview of the role and its requirements. NotesWikipedia's article on the sofer, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for the Talmudic tractate Soferim as the halakhic framework, the shimush apprenticeship system, and the documented count of female sofers as of 2014, standard reference facts.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofer
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