Both the Shulchan Aruch Harav and the Mishnah Brurah use similar terminology when describing the importance of the shin being "pointy" on the bottom and all three branches of the letter shin meeting at a point or "chad" at the bottom of the letter. There is a strong foundation in Halacha for this and for the bottom of the shin to be flat like a moshav (base) is considered questionable (Pri Megadim) and definitely not Kosher Lechatchillah. It is worse if the moshav is very wide, but it is still questionable if it is lechatchillah if there is a thick noticeable base rather than a chad.
Even for Sephardim, who lechatchillah make an angular base, it is still important that the base is indeed on a (significant) angle. If the base is flat, even if all three branches of the shin come out of the base connected , as in the top picture, it is problematic. It is worse in the bottom picture below where the right head/ branch comes out of the right part of the base and the mi…
It is a mistake! There is written about a megila that was written shlo csidran, meaning not timewise, but megila starts page no.10,9,8 etc. [as the shlo ksidran in hanachas haparshiyos b'batim shel rosh].
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ReplyDeleteI have a related question. I once heard that we are not required to write Kesidran in Sefer Torah because of practical reasons but that it would be more desirable to try to write it Kesidran. For instance, avoid skipping the Sheimos for writing all together at a later time. Has anyone heard about this and if yes what's the source?
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The Keset 10:13 writes that lechatchila one should write the Shem in order (this is based on the Zohar),however bidieved the keset allows if the Shem was not written in order.
ReplyDeleteIbid:18 concerning the importance of going to Mikveh before writing Shem. The Keset allows one to leave empty spaces and later write them after going to the mikveh, however to do it on the entire Sefer Torah, he writes one should not do it since the ktav will look menumar (spotted).