Thursday, February 13, 2014

Old Torah Scroll

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Last week I was approached by a Christian Copt, who was offering this Torah Scroll for sale. This Torah was missing one Eitz Chayim and ...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Yoma 70a - the miztva of "showing off" your Torah Scroll

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Here's an interesting anecdote from the Daf Yomi of last month. In Yom Kippur, all (yes, all) the people that were in the temple for the...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Mezuza Case in Ktav Ivri

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This is an interesting Mezuza case - instead of the usual Shin Daled Yud (or in many cases, just the Shin), it has the equivalent letters ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Column 1 of 214

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I will be posting each column here, and I'm happy to hear feedback. In the third day, it's missing a few words, which I will compl...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Judaica

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A childhood friend of mine started this interesting Judaica website featuring Hebrew calligraphy works by his late grandfather. They have ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Amazing Megillot #11: Megillah Case

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I saw this magnificent Megilla case in the Mamila shop of Haddad Brothers, in Jerusalem. I have seen many cases, but this one is my all t...

My Sefer Torah #2

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I didn't write much yet, but I decided to post anyways. I'm a little rusty as I haven't done any Safrut in the past year, and ...
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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...