Next to a handwritten Torah, or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
symbolically, the holiest written material of the Jewish people.
This one was written in Egypt and belonged to a Jewish community in Egypt.
It is written by the same strict standards Jewish scribes have been following since Biblical times, and Jews throughout the world use it during services at temple.
when not read, the Torah scroll is kept in the holiest section of the synagogue, called the 'Holy Ark', and which faces Jerusalem.
After taking a look where the scroll is opened I saw that considering the location of this particular Jewish community, it is opened at the part describing Moses humiliating the Pharaoh's black magicians in the legendary 'staffs battle', Gandalf and Saruman anyone?