Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Amazing Megillot #8: Avraham Borshevski

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Avaraham Borshevski has one of the nicest Ktavim I know and among his projects is this nice Megillat Esther, which was illustrated by Irina ...
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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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Amazing Megillot #7: Iraqi Esther Scroll

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I came across this beautiful Esther Scroll from Iraq. It's a very special piece, with symmetric motifs and splendid coloring. Written in...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Good Hand or a Good Heart?

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"Ze Keili Veanveihu" , roughly translated as ”this is my G-d and I will glorify him", is the source of Chazal's concept o...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

World's Smallest Torah Scroll

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Shuki Freiman is one of my favorite judaica artist and his latest project was the development of this alleged smallest Sefer Torah, along wi...
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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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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Amazing Megillot #6: Sotheby's Important Judaica Auction

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In my previous post I wrote about Sotheby's Sefer Torah auction, which pocketed 398,500 (the estimate was 300,000 to 500,000). But there...
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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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Friday, October 9, 2009

Pic: Zoomed Shin

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Aside from Safrut, I love photography and I wanted to post this cool pic, which I took using my diamond lupe. This is my soon-to-be-compl...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Stam Stories #1

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In this series of posts, you will read about the few stories of Chazal that speak about Sta"m - Sefer Torah, Tefillin and...
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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Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Psalms Menorah

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UPDATE: see a more recent detailed post here . One of the best-selling Safrut items is the Lamnatzeach Menora. You can see it in almost e...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Esnoga's Scrolls

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The Esnoga is one of the most important historic synagogues of the world and it was built during the golden years of the Jewish community of...
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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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Jewish Week Article

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Here's a great article from the Jewish Week , pointed out by Lion of Zion (don't miss the post discussion there ). "A Safer Tor...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Rashi Vs. Rabbeinu Tam - Round II

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There are two major discussions between Rashi and Rabeinu Tam that relate to Safrut and in this post I will talk about the second. My first...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

About the Name of This Blog

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You probably noticed that the web url of this blog is kind of weird - "Lavlor". What's that? A scribe is usually called a ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Exquisite Megillat Esther Case

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Made out of ivory, gold and silver, this is one of the nicest cases I've seen - I love the look of Esther and Achashverosh and the assim...