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# Writing a Sefer Torah together with other people is a fulfillment of the mitzvah for everyone involved.<ref>Bet Efraim YD 63</ref> | # Writing a Sefer Torah together with other people is a fulfillment of the mitzvah for everyone involved.<ref>Bet Efraim YD 63</ref> | ||
# If someone else writes a Sefer Torah on someone else's behalf without their knowledge the owner isn't fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Pitchei Teshuva YD 270:7 quotes the Mishnat Chachamim who says that if someone else writes a Sefer Torah they wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah since according to the Rama buying a Sefer Torah doesn't fulfill the mitzvah and according to Rashi it isn't the optimal mitzvah and there's no zachin for something which isn't a benefit.</ref> | # If someone else writes a Sefer Torah on someone else's behalf without their knowledge the owner isn't fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Pitchei Teshuva YD 270:7 quotes the Mishnat Chachamim who says that if someone else writes a Sefer Torah they wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah since according to the Rama buying a Sefer Torah doesn't fulfill the mitzvah and according to Rashi it isn't the optimal mitzvah and there's no zachin for something which isn't a benefit.</ref> | ||
# If one can't write the Sefer Torah himself he should hire a sofer to write it for him.<Ref>Rambam Sefer Hamitzvot 18. Mishneh Halachot 16:101 argues that perhaps writing a Sefer Torah is a mitzvah upon a person's body and if a person can't write it hiring a scribe to write it for them is only a fulfillment of a partial mitzvah.</ref> | |||
==Who is obligated to write a Sefer Torah?== | ==Who is obligated to write a Sefer Torah?== | ||
