The mitzvah to write a Torah scroll
Jewish commandment that prescribes Jews to write a Torah scroll / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The mitzvah to write a Torah scroll (Hebrew: מצוות כתיבת ספר תורה) is the last mitzvah of the 613 Jewish commandments. It mandates Jews to write a Torah scroll for themselves. The source of the mitzvah is from what is said in Parashat Vayelech in Book of Deuteronomy:
Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them"[1]
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In the Oral Torah it is said that although according to the verse only the parasha "Hazinu" should be written, but since it is forbidden to write only one parsha from the Torah, necessarily the intention of the Torah in this mitzvah is to write the whole Torah.[2]