"Mr Metayeg"
Since we recently had a lot of talk about "Mr Metayeg", here is a "metayeg" who put Christian crosses on the first line and shem Hashem's. This was recently found in Israel.
How about the Bais of Uleovdo?
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Not a "khaf"
This gave me a "Safrut smile"... OK, I realise that this is not Ktav STaM, however it is interesting what happens when graphic/font Hebrew becomes too stylised. Case-in-point, a colleague and I were visiting the mayor's office in the Gaza Belt region of Shaar HaNegev (adjoining Sderot). He is new to reading Hebrew and pronounced the welcome sign as " brooning " or " broobing " (instead of the intended " brookhim ". I replied that he was more correct than the graphic designer, as the letter meant to be a " khaf " was closer to a halakhic "Nun" or "Bet", and had this been Ktav STaM, the letter would likely be considered pasul as a "Khaf".
תיבה מיותרת במזוזה
תיבה יתירה בסת"ם פוסלת. ולא מועיל כאן גרירת היתר, כי ישאר שיעור ט' אותיות [קטנות עכ"פ] והוא שיעור ריוח פרשה סתומה באמצע הפרשה. ועל כן צריכה המזוזה הזאת גניזה. דרך אגב: ככל הנראה המזוזה הזאת לא עברה הגהה כלל !!! (קשה לי להניח שמגיה לא ישים לב לדבר כזה)
Elad,
ReplyDeletethis is not Mt Mitayeg's work, but some Jew for x-man [Hashem yerachem] added on a mezuza.
What should be done with such a mezuzah l'maseh? Put in Geniza or something else?
ReplyDeleteDefinitly in gniza, it is very quite obvious that the mezuza was written by one person [possibly a kosher sofer], and the crosses added by some meshigener.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is I think before putting it in geniza, it is a mitzva to erase the crosses, because the disgrace to cisvei hakodesh. This is on the probable assumption that the mezuza wasn't written by a min. Had the mezuza been written by a min, it should be burnt, the csav and ....
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