May 9, 2007—At Kayunga Hospital in Uganda, medical instruments include not only scalpels but flashlights.
Now, people are using scalpels to slice logos off.
It is a world of scalpels and syringes, of radiation and medicines that inflict misery and inspire hope.
What if in yourlittle black medical bag you had—not 20 pills, two scalpels, and an orthopedic hammer—butalso all quadrants, all waves, all streams, all states, and all types?
Venus, a sofer or ordained scribe and more than 40 other volunteers painstakingly cleaned the torah with scalpels which scraped the mud off, but would not damage the fragile letters.