[NFBJ] Scribes interested in learning about blindness

Tue Aug 18 23:29:51 UTC 2026

Fortunately, Hebrew Braille was designed by Hebrew scholars with that very fact in mind.  Everything is spelled out letter by letter.  The only major difference is that the nikkudot are characters themselves and nod just markings.

-Rachael Everhart Hudson (She/Her)
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"Do the hard things while they are still easy... The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."  -Lao Tzu
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Subject: Re: [NFBJ] Scribes interested in learning about blindness

I find this is also an interesting concept. Although I don’t really read English braille, I don’t know how it work with Hebrew braille. Does Hebrew braille also rely heavily on contractions and shortcuts as English braille does, if so, would this be  acceptable or would it have to be the whole words, because the way I understand it the problem with subscribe copying a new tourist is they have to make sure that they don’t change any of the words. Anyway, just my thoughts on this maybe I’m totally way off. I don’t know. Since.  Yontif is quickly approaching, we’re only a month away, wishing all a happy and healthy new year. May everybody be inscribed in the book of life and prosperity for the coming year… Baruch Hashem
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> Shalom:
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> 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?
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> Kol tuv,
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> Daveed
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> On Aug 17, 2026, at 4:32 PM, Rachael D Hudson via NFBJ <nfbj at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> I agreed to send their message (below)
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> 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><http://www.thekedushaproject.org<http://www.thekedushaproject.org>>
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> -Rachael Everhart Hudson (She/Her)
> 267-268-5780
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