Sofer
（重定向自Soferim）
![A sofer finishing the final letters of a Torah scroll](/Images/godic/202502/11/Sofer5830.jpg")
![A Sofer completing the Book of Esther, Ein Bokek, Israel](/Images/godic/202502/11/Sofer,_Jewish_scribe5830.JPG")
![The Torah Scribe by Maurycy Gottlieb, National Museum in Wrocław](/Images/godic/202502/11/Gottlieb_Torah_Scribe5830.jpg")
![The first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet as they would be written scribally (a digital approximation)](/Images/godic/202502/11/Alephbetgimmel.svg5830.png")
A Sofer, Sopher, Sofer SeTaM, or Sofer ST"M (Heb: "scribe", סופר סת״ם) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, and other religious writings. (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation for Sefer Torahs, Tefillin, and Mezuzot. The plural of sofer is "soferim", סופרים.)