Women's Torah Project

The Women's Torah

The Women's Torah Project, a project of the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA, is creating the first sefer Torah in history to be scribed and embellished by an international community of women. It is the first woman-scribed Torah commissioned in modern times; the first Torah to be intentionally scribed by a partnership of women; and the first Torah to be supported, written and adorned by an international community of women and men sustaining one another through the hard work of transforming ideals into reality. But the WTP is already about more than creating a Sefer Torah, although that would be enough. It is about more than opening doors for women called to meaningful work that has been denied to them for millennia because of their gender, although that, too, would be enough. It is about transformation, about building connections, about bringing people closer to Torah by bringing Torah closer to them.