YK's Sofer Blog - Jewish Scribe - לבלר סופר

For many years now, I use my spare time to research Safrut throughout the ages and also for writing as a Sofer Stam (currently busy with my own Sefer Torah). Here you will find revealing articles about this ancient art and you will also keep track of my progress.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Rabbi Menachem di Lonzano and the Masora

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  In our quest to understand how our Torah’s text became standardized, all roads lead to Rabbi Menachem di Lonzano and this post will focus ...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried - From the Keset Hasofer to the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

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The most influential work in the field of Safrut is undoubtedly the Keset Hasofer, written by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, and I therefore think ...
Monday, August 29, 2022

A Review of Yosef Ofer’s “The Mesora on Scriptures and its methods”

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A scribe’s work is centered around the scripture’s text, and in the course writing a Torah Scroll, every word is accorded a great amount of ...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

The Last Two Lines of Shirat Hayam

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This post is related to my last post on Shirat Haazinu - you might want to read that first. The Talmud in Megillah 16b states: אָמַר  רַבִּ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Shirat Haazinu: 70 or 67 lines?

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One of the few columns that stand out in a Sefer Torah is Shirat Hayam, with its “brick and mortar” shape, and Haazinu, with its “two towers...
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