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 m
I just Bar-Ilan'd "צף" "קלף" to appear within 20 words of each other in every sefer (including shu''t shevet halevi" and it didnt come up with anything. I also tried several other searches, but didn't succeed.
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see bnei yonah yorah deah siman 271 seif 6
ReplyDeletehttp://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=44655&st=&pgnum=5 (last parentheses in the left column)
see also yerios shlomo (ch. 3 p. 3) who says that it is kosher
i guess that shows how otzar hachachma can be superior to bar ilan :-)
ReplyDeleteZvi, I think you didn't mean "floating" rather protruding, Ie the ink is boilet above the klaf.
ReplyDeleteThis is the Bney Yona quoted by Peretz above.
Readjust the hebrew words in search, instead of צף.
I remember the word צף or one of its variations like יצוף ,לצוף, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhich volume of שבט הלוי deals with questions of STAM?
ReplyDeletetry search דיו קלף
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