Sunday, November 2, 2014

Girsology blog

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I'm a longtime fan of the parshablog , where Rabbi Josh Waxman often writes about mesorah and scribal oddities in the Torah. He stands o...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Chagiga 15b - the shape of the Lamed

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Today's Daf, while discussing the sages of different centuries, says: איה סופר המגדלים שהיו שונים שלוש מאות הלכות במגדל הפורח באויר ...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Tzitzis - wool, cashmere, cotton or silk?

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As I wrote my Sefer Torah, I often look topically in a few commentaries to further understand the text and be more focused. I'm now ...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Amazing Megillot 12: Yonah Weinrib

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Rabbi Yonah Weinrib is a great illuminator and also a very knowledgeble scholar who adds explanations next to his works. My Bar M...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Book Review: Sacred Monsters by N. Slifkin

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As I was writing Parshat Bereishit in my ongoing Sefer Torah project, one theme stood out from the story of creation: the Bnei Elohim. Th...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Hamas in Scripture

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As Israel gets more and more entangled in what looks like a full blown war with Hamas, I got to the pasuk which mentions the very name...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

My progress: Parshat Bereishit is done!

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Today is BH a special day for me as I finished the first Parsha of my Sefer Torah - parshat Bereishit. I never thought I would actuall...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Christie's sells a Chumash from 1400's for record price

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The Chumash was sold for almost 4 million dollars, above the 2 million estimate. It is just like a Torah Scroll, but with vowelization, cant...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Purim Codes from Megillat Esther

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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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