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…
Matters which size yeriah... the 48cm is 8mm lines and the 42cm is 7.5mm lines, the 36cm is about the same as a 15cm mezuzah line and the 30cm is about the same as a shel rosh line.
ReplyDeleteIs there any Yeriah size that has lines for 10mm? Or is that not common since it makes the Sefer a lot heavier?
DeleteThe larger yeriah is 50cm usually only used for sfardi sefer torahs. I dont think it would be 10mm though... and 10mm is a very large ksav, no?
ReplyDeleteYes it is a large ktav, I use 10 mm as the size i normally write, so I was wondering if there would be such a size.
DeleteThanks for the information!