Extended heads of the letters shatnez getz
What is the law in regard to the heads of
zayin or nun that are extended?
[The pictures are edited, and may be exagerated
in order to emphasis the problem]
MS (ois nun) writes: one should be careful
not to extend the head of the nun, because it resembles a beis. It seems he is
saying so, even if the moshav is short, still an extended head resembles
partialy a beis. This follows what the MB 36:3 writes that there are opinions
that changing a letter so part of it resembles a different letter is pasul, but
the MB there concludes this isn't pasul. So we may understand here the same,
that lachatchila this should not be done, bdieved it is not pasul.
The Mikdash M'at (nun:5, in name of Da'as
Kedoshim) questions maybe an extended head and short moshav is pasul, because
it looks like an upside down nun. (this reason is questionable, why can't a tinok
be asked?)
And indeed in Shavet Halevi vol 5:6 writes
that if the head is 3k wide it is pasul, either because of resembling a beis or
an upside down nun. Accordingly Biur Hasofer (p. 76) writes that if the head is
less than 3k wide it may be a shaylas tinok at most.
One must add that the reasons given above, fit to a nun that the head is extended left and not extended to its right, then it resembles a beis or nun hafucha. but if it is extended on both sides equaly [as the first nun in picture] it shouldnt be a problem.
One must add that the reasons given above, fit to a nun that the head is extended left and not extended to its right, then it resembles a beis or nun hafucha. but if it is extended on both sides equaly [as the first nun in picture] it shouldnt be a problem.
Rabbi Shtern in his Yalkut Hasofer (p. 53) a
zayin that the head is close to the length of a dalet is chashash pasul
(although the foot is centered). It seems [from his words] that if is 3k long it is definitly
pasul, in regard to less he is choshesh.
This pasul in zayin may be proven from the Tikun Tfilins shita (see "Definition of ches - Rabenu Tam") that if the zayins of the ches are extended the ches is pasul, kal vachomer if the zayin itself is extended.
This pasul in zayin may be proven from the Tikun Tfilins shita (see "Definition of ches - Rabenu Tam") that if the zayins of the ches are extended the ches is pasul, kal vachomer if the zayin itself is extended.
Comments
Post a Comment