Sofer

A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Heb: "scribe", סופר סת״ם‎; plural of sofer is soferim סופרים‎; female: soferet) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), and mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם‎, is an abbreviation of these three terms), of the Five Megillot and other religious writings. The major halakha pertaining to sofrut, the practice of scribal arts, is in the Talmud in the tractate "Maseket Sofrim". In the Torah's 613 commandments, the second to last is that every Jew should write a sefer Torah before he dies. (Deuteronomy 31:19).

Sofer

A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Heb: "scribe", סופר סת״ם‎; plural of sofer is soferim סופרים‎; female: soferet) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), and mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם‎, is an abbreviation of these three terms), of the Five Megillot and other religious writings. The major halakha pertaining to sofrut, the practice of scribal arts, is in the Talmud in the tractate "Maseket Sofrim". In the Torah's 613 commandments, the second to last is that every Jew should write a sefer Torah before he dies. (Deuteronomy 31:19).