וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ בָּר֔וּךְ מִפִּיו֙ יִקְרָ֣א אֵלַ֔י אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַאֲנִ֛י כֹּתֵ֥ב עַל־הַסֵּ֖פֶר בַּדְּיֽוֹ׃ (פ)
At sinabi sa kanila ni Baruc: “Mula sa kanyang bibig ay binibigkas niya sa akin ang lahat ng salitang ito, at isinusulat ko naman ang mga ito sa aklat sa pamamagitan ng tinta.”
Tractate Sefer Torah
The text of a Torah Scroll is not written on parchment made of skins of unclean (i.e. non-kosher) domestic animals or unclean wild animals, and not sewn with their sinews, and not wrapped with their hair. It is a halacha from Moshe at Sinai that it should be written on parchment made of skins of clean domestic animals or clean wild animals, and is sewn with clean skins, and wrapped with clean hair. And it should be written with ink. Because there is allusion from a verse: "And I will write the book with ink" (Jeremiah 36).
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah
From where the translation? Rebbi Ze`ira in the name of Rav Ḥananel: They read in the Scroll of the Torah33Neh. 8:8., that is the reading. Explained, that is the translation34Since this is proved from a text in Hagiographs, the Targum has the status of an institution of the Men of the Great Assembly.. Making sense, these are the accents35Which indicate the divisions of sentences into logical units.. And understood the reading, this is the Masora, and some say, these are the decisions36The sentences where the caesura and therefore the meaning is not obvious. Avodah zarah 2:8, Notes 325 ff., and some say, these are the starts of verses37The division of the text into verses is oral tradition since no punctuation is permitted in the text. The last three options are variants of the theme that the text is intelligible only on the basis of traditional pronunciation. Babli 3a, Nedarim 37b.. Rebbi Ze`ira in the name of Rav Ḥananel: Even an expert in the Torah like Ezra should not pronounce with his mouth38One may not recite a Torah text by heart (nor, as pointed out in the sequel, write the text by heart.) Babli 18b. and read as it is said about Baruch: And from his mouth he would read all these words to me and I was writing on a scroll with ink39Jer. 36:18.. But was it not stated40Babli 18b, Tosephta 2:5., “it happened that Rebbi Meïr was in Essia where there was no Esther scroll written in Hebrew, when he wrote it by heart and read it. One does not infer from emergency situations. But there are those who say that he wrote two. He wrote the first by heart, and copied the second one from the first one, put away the first and read from the second.” Rebbi Ismael ben Rebbi Yose says, I can write the entire Torah from memory. The Elder Rebbi Ḥiyya said, I can write the entire Torah for two minas41Babli Bava meṣia` 85b.. How would he do it? He buys flax seed for two minas, sowed and harvested it, made ropes to catch deer and wrote the entire Torah on their hides. Rebbi heard it and said, happy is (the people) [the generation]42The corrector’s change is unnecessary since Rebbi is known as proponent of correct use of Hebrew; for him גוי means “people”, not “Gentile”. to which you belong.
Megillah
On parchment and in ink. From where do we know this? The word “writing” in one place is derived from “writing” used in another place. It is written here, “And Esther the queen wrote,” (Esther 9:29) and it is written in another place, “Then Baruch said to them: He read all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book” (Jeremiah 36:18).