Our Kosher scrolls, which are handmade in Israel, are designed to fit perfectly inside your Via Maris mezuzah. While a klaf’s inscription is traditionally handwritten by a male scribe (sofer), Via Maris sources their scrolls from a progressive international women’s collective of soferets. These female scribes specialize in calligraphy for mezuzahs (as well as inscribing scrolls for Torahs, megillas and ketubahs). Sacred texts’ calligraphy is painstaking, and each letter of the religious item must be carefully transcribed — a klaf can take up to three hours to complete by hand. We proudly support these women and their exquisite work.
Ships flat. Scroll and store within your mezuzah.
Parchment (klaf).
Handwritten in Israel by a female soferet.
Height 2.75’’ (designed to fit within your Via Maris mezuzah)
For centuries, Jews have attached a mezuzah, which translates to “doorpost” in Hebrew, to the outside of their doors. Although intended as a means of protecting the household, the mezuzah is neither an amulet nor a talisman.
Instead, stored within the mezuzah’s narrow, rectangular form is a piece of parchment referred to as a klaf. On the klaf are two paragraphs from the Torah that outline the basic beliefs of Judaism, including the prayer Shema Yisrael (“Hear, O Israel”), as well as the commandment to affix the mezuzah.
Our Kosher scrolls, which are handmade in Israel, are designed to fit perfectly inside your Via Maris mezuzah. While a klaf’s inscription is traditionally handwritten by a male scribe (sofer), Via Maris sources their scrolls from a progressive international women’s collective of soferets. These female scribes specialize in calligraphy for mezuzahs (as well as inscribing scrolls for Torahs, megillas and ketubahs). Sacred texts’ calligraphy is painstaking, and each letter of the religious item must be carefully transcribed — a klaf can take up to three hours to complete by hand. We proudly support these women and their exquisite work.
Ships flat. Scroll and store within your mezuzah.
Parchment (klaf).
Handwritten in Israel by a female soferet.
Height 2.75’’ (designed to fit within your Via Maris mezuzah)
For centuries, Jews have attached a mezuzah, which translates to “doorpost” in Hebrew, to the outside of their doors. Although intended as a means of protecting the household, the mezuzah is neither an amulet nor a talisman.
Instead, stored within the mezuzah’s narrow, rectangular form is a piece of parchment referred to as a klaf. On the klaf are two paragraphs from the Torah that outline the basic beliefs of Judaism, including the prayer Shema Yisrael (“Hear, O Israel”), as well as the commandment to affix the mezuzah.
