The moon could have its own holy ark and Sefer Torah within three years, thanks to a crowd-funded initiative to land a sacred scroll on the lunar surface.
The Torah on the Moon project is asking people worldwide, Jewish and non-Jewish, to "buy" a letter in the specially-designed, 5in Torah, which will be launched in an unmanned spacecraft and left on the moon in a special capsule-like ark.
"The idea is to put the Torah on the ultimate pedestal," said Elie Klein, spokesman for the project, which is being run as a business but will funnel "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to educational organisations in various countries.
"Admittedly, this has something of a stunt about it, but the point is that the Torah is truly out of this world," said Mr Klein, adding that the hope is that when people know there is a Torah on the moon, it will have more prominence in people's thoughts.
