Thursday, March 8, 2012

Purim - The Shem in the Megilla

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Unlike all other Tanach books, the Name of God is not mentioned throughout Megillat Ester - not even once. The explanation is one of Purim...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Amazing Megillot #10: In Gvil

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It's one of my dreams to write in Gvil, so I was very interested to see a picture of this Gevil Megillat Esther, written in Veillish. Ha...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Rashi vs Rabbeinu Tam - Round 3: Tefillin

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For the first and second discussions between them click here and here . This post ties together many other topics we have covered unti...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

“800 Year-Old Torah” - Video

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I saw this great video analysis of a very old Sefer Torah (Hat tip to MelechMichaels ). It's a must see and it features a neat trick of ...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Damaged Mezuza

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Here's some pictures of a damaged Mezuza. It was placed in the outside entrance of my in-laws' house. It got dried and burned as ...
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New Blogs

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I started this blog a few years back because there were really few English Safrut blogs active at that time. I'm thrilled to see a new ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Beware of False Mezuzot

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While watching TorahLive's Mezuza DVD (see previous post), I was intrigued to hear about a story of false Mezuzot in the Bank of Israel ...

TorahLive - Mezuza

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The other day I saw this DVD in the local Judaica store - a Mezuza DVD presentation. I happen to know the person behind it, Rabbi Roth, and ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Hanukka Candles and Mezuza

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There's an interesting Halacha in Hanuka that is connected to the Safrut topic. The Talmud in Shabbos (22a) says: אמר רבה נר חנוכה...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

My Progress #8: 3rd Mezuza - Big Size

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I'm moving soon to a new house and I will need quite a few Mezuzot, so wrote a third Mezuza. This time, I used a big size klaf, with li...
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Monday, December 5, 2011

Ink

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The title of this post is rather short and simple but this topic in Safrut is obscure, confusing and very challenging. The scribes usually p...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Short Q&A - Machon Ot

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Founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Shteiner and Rabbi Yitzchak Goldshtein,  Machon Ot is  a non-profit organization  based in Jerusalem which has de...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Halacha LeMaase: Hanging Words

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A student from Indiana University emailed me some pictures of an old Sefer Torah which reminded me of a few obscure Halachot. Take a look i...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Baruch Shekivanti!

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"In the beit midrash, it is considered an exciting delight to find that one's original thought was actually innovated by an earl...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Melechet Shamayim

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Just came across a very good blog that also focuses on Safrut. The author is very handy and like experiments, and I specially like his seri...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Ze Keili VeAnveihu זה אלי ואנוהו

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This is an addendum to one of my earlier posts which discussed Ze Keili Veanveihu. Just a quick briefing: " זה אלי ואנוהו "...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Saving an Holocaust Torah Scroll - Part II

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This is a follow-up of an earlier post . So here we are, a year since I first saw the Holocaust Torah I wrote about. For a full year nothi...