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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Sunday, November 14, 2010

White Fire and Black Fire

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The Ashkenazi sofrim have a custom of writing the Peh in a way that there's also a Bet inside it. Until the Second World War, the Sofrim...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Stam Stories #4: The letters and the creation

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This story is found in the Introduction to the Zohar, Ot 23. While it's well known that the world was created by G-d with the letter Bet...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

My Progress #6: 2nd Mezuza

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Here's snap of my new project, my second Mezuza. I did have some problem to fit in the word Veshinantam but I managed..!
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...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Havchanat Tinok in Holy Names

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A few months ago I saw M. Pinchas' post about Havchanat Tinok in regards to Shem Hashem. He was confronted with the following problemati...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Stolen Torah Scrolls

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"Torah scrolls stolen from Antwerp synagogue May 31, 2010 (JTA) -- Several Torah scrolls were stolen from Antwerp's main synagogue ...
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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Monday, April 19, 2010

My Progress #5: My First Mezuza

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Today I finished writing my very first Mezuza, which means that I'm a step closer towards my goal of writing a Sefer Torah. This time th...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Stam Stories #3: Alter Rebbe's Mezuzot

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I'm reposting this story I read in Mezuzah.net . I was actually looking for a similar story but this one is another good example of how ...
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...
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...