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Torah scribe Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov writes a paragraph of a Torah as part of the exhibition "The Creation of the World" on July 10, 2014 at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In the museum, an installation called "bios [torah]" presents an industrial robot using pen and ink writes a Torah "at the speed of a human a total of 304,805 Hebrew letters on an 80-meter roll of paper", referring "to the activity of Torah writing performed in the Jewish tradition by a specially trained scribe, the Sofer". AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Torah scribe Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov writes a paragraph of a Torah as part of the exhibition "The Creation of the World" on July 10, 2014 at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In the museum, an installation called "bios [torah]" presents an industrial robot using pen and ink writes a Torah "at the speed of a human a total of 304,805 Hebrew letters on an 80-meter roll of paper", referring "to the activity of Torah writing performed in the Jewish tradition by a specially trained scribe, the Sofer". AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)
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