[NFBJ] Scribes interested in learning about blindness

[Daveed Mandell]

Hello Rabbi, Michael:

Can you tell us more about CSB care? I have tried to find a catalogue of their works, but I have not been successful. I believe they are ultra orthodox, rather than modern orthodox. I don’t know what extent they work with other movements, such as conservative. I noticed that they of course, use the Ashkenazi pronunciation in Hebrew. And I hate to say this, but as in Israeli, I am prejudice regarding our modern Hebrew. But anyway, I have not succeeded in finding a comprehensive catalog of all of their work.Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 18, 2026, at 7:42 AM, mlevy at verse-onality.com wrote:

Contact CSBCARE.  

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Shalom:

This is very exciting! Torah reading is something I have longed to do all my life. I was just recently thinking about a Torah with both print and Braille. Wouldn't that be something? By the way, does anyone have information on Braille trope signs for both Torah and Haftarah chanting?

Kol tuv,

Daveed

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On Aug 17, 2026, at 4:32 PM, Rachael D Hudson via NFBJ <nfbj at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Shalom y’all,
A friend recently met a group of scribes at a maker space in Minnesota. He connected them with me in the hopes that I could pass them on to this group to help begin facilitating conversation.   It’s my understanding that these are orthodox or ultra orthodox scribes who are inspired by Rabbi Lenny‘s approach to a braille Torres scroll, but want to create something with the traditionally prescribed in and so on.  It is their hope that we can also perhaps put together a call in which they can learn from users of Hebrew Braille… Obviously, sometime after the high holidays.

I agreed to send their message (below)


A new project is exploring the creation of sacred Jewish texts that combine traditional handwritten Hebrew with Hebrew Braille, beginning with a prototype Megillat Esther and working towards a complete, kosher Torah scroll with Braille. The goal is to make communal ritual texts more accessible to blind Jews while preserving the rigorous requirements of Jewish scribal tradition. The project is feedback and suggestions from the blind community to help shape the work, which is being developed through the Kedusha Project: www.thekedushaproject.org<http://www.thekedushaproject.org>

-Rachael Everhart Hudson (She/Her)
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