Monday, September 23, 2013

My Sefer Torah #1: Getting Started

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This post is actually a follow-up to my post about how many lines my Torah will have . I B"H managed to exchange the 42 lines klafi...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

How many lines should my Torah Scroll Have?

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So after some 4 years in the waiting, the stars seemed to have aligned for me and I have the time, place and yishuv hada'as to start wri...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Eiruvin 64: Torah Scroll's Amulet Power

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I found this interesting custom, mentioned in the Talmud in this week's Daf Yomi cycle: R. Aba and R. Menasiya:   One who takes po...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Auction Sefer Torah

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Nice recent story from a friend: "Since we mainly hear negative things that the internet produces, please read the following tr...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Aleppo Codex: Book Review from a Scribe's Perspective

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I've been meaning to write about the Aleppo/Ben Asher Codex for a long time. Now that Matti Friedman came out with a masterpiece book ...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Stam Stories #7: Pasul Tefillin

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This cute story is also from this wednesday's "DafDigest" There once was an elderly man, one of the chassidim of Pzhisha, w...

Talmud Gems #1 - Elisha Ba’al Kenafayim

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Article by "DafYomi Digest" תפילין צריכין גוף נקי כאלישע בעל כנפים  - מט. Wearing tefillin requires a “clean body” as we find...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Classic Mistake and Fix

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One of my very first works was this 11 lines Megillat Esther. Last Purim I noticed this classic mistake - Lamed that invades de Chaf ...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Why we write Shakai in the Mezuza?

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 I'm out on vacation and before leaving, I loaded my iPad with some new Torah apps that are really unbelievable.  The first is th...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Inverted Nuns - Rabbi Frand's Video

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Last Thursday, Rabbi Frand spoke about the inverted Nuns of Parshat Behalotcha in his popular weekly shiur. This is a very important topic...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Stam Stories #6: The Maharam Rothenburg and 13th Torah

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The Maharam (Meir ben Baruch) was one of the last great Tosafists and was the Gadol of his generation. He lived a quite tragic life, witness...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Re-post: The reliability of messy writing

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This article appeared in Jpost.com a few days ago, and it is connected to my post on Writing the last words of a Sefer Torah.       By...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Writing on Red Gvil!

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My posts are usually concise write-ups about Halacha discussions. This post is different - an open and honest account of my first time writi...
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