Torah Scroll is usually written according to the style of the script, that may vary depending either on the nature of the community it is written for or upon the religious bias of the sofer. Thus, for instance, Beth Yosef script is used by the Litvacks. Sefardi congregations commonly accept Velish script. AriZal (Isaac Luria) style is established as general Chassidic script. Chabad script that is also dubbed Otiot ha-Rav, in honor of the Lubavicher Rabbi, is the often-search-after type of script, cherished by Chasidim of Chabad. However, differences of the script do not prevent any congregation to use the kosher Sefer Torah written by any licensed sofer.

Old Sifrei Torah sometimes has peculiar letters provided with curious embellishments, lines, curves, crowns. They are called otiot kefufot - bent letters. Those letters contain cabbalistic secrets. Each of the lines hints at the miracles of the Creation and mysteries of the Upper world. Those letters were widely used by early Hassidim in Poland. Among those who applied cabalistic secrets to the script of Sefer Torah were Efraim from Brody, the scribe of the Israel ben Eliezer (Ba'al Shem Tov) and perhaps Menahem Nahum from Tchernobyl.