Showing posts with label minhag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minhag. Show all posts
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Mission Accomplished! My first Sefer Torah (actually, not really mine)

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I have come a long way since I set out to write my own Sefer Torah years back. I studied all the relevant Halachot and sources, got myself a...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Tzitzis - wool, cashmere, cotton or silk?

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As I wrote my Sefer Torah, I often look topically in a few commentaries to further understand the text and be more focused. I'm now ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Matzos and Tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam

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Someone presented me with a brand new Sefer called Ot Yatziv, from Zanz, which deals exclusively with the Minhaguim of Zanz in Sa...
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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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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Using the Magnifying Lense in Safrut

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One of the most important concepts of Safrut is that every word should be "Mukaf Gevil" - which means that it should be surrounded...
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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...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Chesed,Gevurah and the Tagim

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I sent my Mezuza to be checked by an expert sofer and the first thing he pointed out to me concerns the Tagim of the Shaatnez Getz letters. ...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Mezuza

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The Mezuza is one of Safrut's most interesting items. It must be written Kesidran, in order, and Chazal say that it provides a special h...
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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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

My Progress #4: Megillat Shir Hashirim

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I finally managed to finish my Megillat Shir Hashirim, which took some 4 months to write. I had a very tough time writing this one since th...
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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...
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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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Two Columns of Shirat Haazinu

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The Mitzva of writing a Sefer Torah comes from this past week's Parsha, Haazinu. In the preceding Parsha, G-d says to Moshe that the Je...
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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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