Sunday, July 31, 2011

Stam Stories #5: The Sofer and the Quill

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Horav Moshe Zaggaro, zl, one of the distinguished rabbanim in Fez, Morocco, was also a sofer, scribe. He had an interesting way of writing a...
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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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Saving an Holocaust Torah Scroll - Part I

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There's has been a lot of press surrounding the veracity of a few Holocaust Torah Scrolls sold by a Maryland Rabbi, and being that I...
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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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Thursday, January 13, 2011

My Progress #7: 2nd Mezuza is reviewed by expert sofer..

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... and it's 100% kosher! The sofer who checks my works is VERY attentive and is known for seeing what no one else sees. For many he is ...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Amazing Megillot #9 - JTS

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This is a Megilla from Jewish Theological Seminary's Rare Book Room. The "hang-man" illustration of the ten sons of Haman is r...
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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