ches with rosh missing on vov

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Something like this. is it a shinu tzurah? can it be fixed in tefillin and mezuzos?

Yehoshua, can you please ask ravs shammai? conceptual only, I am not asking about this particular picture.mteh case is that there was a thick low chotteteres but no actaul rosh on 1st vav

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  1. AnonymousMarch 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    Hi Eli,
    Great question! It appears to me that in this case, the CHET is passul, and cannot be corrected in tefillin and mezuzot, for both components of the letter require a ROSH.

    Likewise, the chutra does not count as a GAG.

    If there was a BELITA (slight protrusion) on the right side, then we can be lenient and allow the fixing of the letter in both, tefillin and mezuzot.

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  2. moshe weinerMarch 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM

    I recommend to see what I wrote Oct. 28 on this forum -
    Definition of ches - Rabenu Tam, especialy part c.

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  3. YehoshuaMarch 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM

    For those interested here is the link to R' Moshe's article
    http://stamforum.blogspot.com/2011/10/definition-of-ches-rabenu-tam.html

    Eli -
    I drew a picture by me and will bli neder ask R' Shammai as soon as I can.

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  4. YehoshuaMarch 27, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    I asked R' Shammai this morning. He said kosher and can fix it by adding some sort of rosh to the right side. (No Shailos tinnok required.)

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  5. Rabbi Eli GutnickMarch 27, 2012 at 6:31 AM

    Rav Chaim Heimlich, the posek here AI normally ask also said it is OK to fix. He based it on rav Shtern's sefer mishnas hasofer omud 58 picture 100

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