Sunday, October 6, 2019

Mission Accomplished! My first Sefer Torah (actually, not really mine)

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I have come a long way since I set out to write my own Sefer Torah years back. I studied all the relevant Halachot and sources, got myself a...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Aleph א in Safrut and Modern History - Exploring the Hebrew Alphabet #1

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The Aleph is probably the most famous letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and one could spend hours talking about its history, hidden meanings an...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Instagram's Sofer Stam

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When I started blogging about Safrut years back, my goal was to provide authentic content at a time when almost all resources where from scr...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Eishes Chayil Artwork

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This is an Eishes Chayil I made some 4 years ago for my wife. My ktiva came out pretty solid and the fact that there are no Halachot to foll...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Line skipped - scraping needed

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It has been a difficult season for my writing - I somehow made a few mistakes I never do. One mistake involves a Shem written in th...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Column 4,5,6,7 of 214

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After a long hiatus, an update about my progress. I made a big mistake in this column... I skipped a line, luckily towards the end and I h...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Sotheby's Auctions Oldest Complete Ashkenazi Torah Scroll

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It's fascinating to see so many important books being auctioned lately, with top dollar hammer prices. What really got my attention is...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Daf Yomi Insights: Lot, His Daughters and the Dots on top of the letters of the Torah

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The Talmud in Nazir 23a discusses the story of Lot and his daughters, who fled the destruction of Sodom and were alone in a cave, thinking...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Picture

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I saw this beautiful picture the other day of an artist illuminating a Megillah. Enjoy
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Jpost: Torah scroll held captive by Iraqi secret police restored for use in Foreign Ministr

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  A Torah scroll written some 150 to 200 years ago in Iraq but which fell captive to the Iraqi secret police has been resto...
Monday, January 19, 2015

70-Year-Old Mezuzah in Perfect Condition Found in Poland

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As part of project to memoralize Jews who disappeared in Holocaust, remarkable discovery made on doorpost in Przemysl. http://www.israel...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Judaica: The World's Most Expensive Aron Kodesh

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Last week,  Christie's sold a famous Rotschild Aron Kodesh  for a whopping U$1,565,000, a record for a Judaica item. While it's a...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Column 3 of 214

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Column 2 of 214

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Time to update and post here my progress. I fixed a mistake in the line that starts with Hashem Elohim - BH the fixing didn't leave mar...
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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...