Torah Light Photo Sculpture Magnet

Features a Torah scroll illuminated from within on a dark fractal background. Add your own text. Jews are called the “people of the Book” because of our devotion to the Torah. By law, we are required to pursue it every spare moment of the day and night. When a child is born, we wish his parents, “May you merit to raise him to Torah.” For four thousand years, the study of Torah has been the life’s occupation of the Jew and his highest mark of achievement. “A mitzvah is a lamp,” says King Solomon in Proverbs, “and Torah, light. Light is a metaphor for Torah. In his commentary to Pirkei Avot, the acclaimed Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehudah Liva) writes: "All of the Divine commandments are One, a single unity. This idea finds expression in the verse, "A commandment is like a flame..." - i.e., each commandment is an individual flame. However, the Torah is not the mere sum total of many individual flames; rather, "the Torah is light." The Torah, which contains all of the individual commandments, is a single unified light. The flames unite to form one great light, for the Torah is a single unit..."