Monday, March 2, 2009

How Many Lines Should a Megilla Have? A Megillat Esther Buyers' Guide

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Purim is fast approaching and many among us are running around looking for a new Megilla, or another Megilla case, another Pirush about Megi...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

My Progress #2 - Another Pitum Haketoret

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After my first work , I had to write a second Pitum Haketoret because my father needed one. The hand-writing is much nicer and finer than ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Ktav Ashurit and the Modern Day Siddurim

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First a very brief intro: there's a discussion in the Talmud in regards to what font was featured in the original Luchot. We follow the ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Holy Shem

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According to Halacha, when a Sofer writes the Shem in Torah, he must do so with the proper Kavanah, that is, he must recite a verbal santifi...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Amazing Megillot #2 - The Agam Meggilla

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I saw this one in the website of the Library of Congress. I've seen other works by Agam but never a Holy Book and this Megilla really s...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

My Progress #1 - Pitum Haketoret

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This was my very first work, a large one-column Pitum Haketoret. It took me some 17 days to complete it and I managed to avoid any mistakes...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Story of the Kulmus

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The Kulmus is the feather a Sofer uses when writing in the Klaf. The previous statement is actually not entirely accurate – the kulmus is no...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Keset Hasofer and my Amazing Find

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Countless books were written about Safrut throughout the centuries. The library of a Sofer must surely include the basics: Tur, Shulchan Aru...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Amazing Megillot Series #1

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I saw this absolutely fabulous Megilat Esther in a Jerusalem Judaica store. It's not an antique piece - it's actually brand new. I c...

The Mitzva of Writing Your Own Sefer Torah

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The very last commandment of the Torah, number 613, is the obligation of every Jew to write a Sefer Torah to himself. That's right, ever...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Welcome!

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I think I should write a little introduction explaining the story behind this blog. I started blogging a few years ago about Jewish Music,...
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