Showing posts with label mesora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mesora. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Aleppo Codex: Book Review from a Scribe's Perspective

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I've been meaning to write about the Aleppo/Ben Asher Codex for a long time. Now that Matti Friedman came out with a masterpiece book ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Menorah-shaped Lamnatazeach - full post

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What's the source of the Menora-shaped Lamnatzeach?  I touched on this subject last year but now I will write it in full. The earlies...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Ktav Ari

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Check my previous post on the different Ashurit scripts before reading this one. The Ktav Ari is one of Safrut's most fascinating ...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Mark of Cain and the Mezuza of Egypt

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In last week's Parsha the Torah talks about the "אות" Cain received after he complained that his sin (killing his brother Heve...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Haazinu and Bnei Haman

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Last year I wrote about Shirat Haazinu's differing Mesorah in regards to the quantity of lines this song should have (link here ). Since...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

The New and Old Peh

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If you look at old Ashkenazi Torah Scrolls, Tefillin and Mezuzot, you will always note a very distinctive Peh. This old Peh has a "hunc...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sotheby's Sefer Torah Auction

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Menachem Butler pointed me to Sotheby's Important Judaica auction which will take place in just a few days. One of the Auction's hi...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Czech Holocaust Scrolls

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I just came back from a short trip to Prague, one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. One of the main attractions of the city is it'...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Bet of Bereishit and the Masechet Sofrim

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The Mesechet Sofrim , one of the mini-Tractates of the Talmud, says: The second statement is well known and all Sifrei Torahs have the large...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Otiot Meshunot - Odd Letters of the Torah

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In the Torah scrolls of today, there are very few scribal oddities and it's not so hard to single them out: Large and small letters - ex...
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