r a n d o m r e f l e c t i o n s - You did not choose me; but I ...

This first level of education was called Bet Sefer (which mean "House of the Book") and lasted until the student was about ten years old. The students would begin memorising the Torah and by the age of ten would generally know the whole thing by heart. ... (When you stayed at a hotel in Jesus' day, the Gideons hadn't gotten there first.) Probably your entire village could only afford one copy, which would have been kept in the synagogue in a closet called the Torah ark. ...