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shin in "Alter Rebbe" script
By
Eli Gutnick
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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
Ink, Kosher vs. non-Kosher
By
Zvi
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We all know that there is no ancient source that requires ink to be מן המותר בפיך . Possibly, as said here before, because in the olden days ink was always מן המותר בפיך and the question was never raised. It was probably self-evident. Nowadays, no decent Rav will approve an ink which is not מן המותר בפיך . Who was the first one to raise this question? Was it raised because of animal ingredients or because of non-kosher wine?
שאלת תינוק
ReplyDeleteThis tsurah is very close to one shown in S'fakot Hasofer קמב number 5 which he concludes seems to him that is kasher as it has a bit of a blitah on the right side. I'd still go with שאלת תינוק though.
ReplyDeleteAri, the yud was also a shaylos tinok I think. These parshiyos are common here (from a particular shop) I usually find kav moshuch psullin but at best they are bedieved
ReplyDeleteit isn't dependent on tinok. tinok surely will read it as "nun sofit" because of the lenght. in my opinion it's kosher. there's a break to the right
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