a nun shevurah?

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I showed this to a few people. I got the whole range of answers, from "I don't see any problem" to "in sefardi ksav this wouldn't be kosher" , what do you think?

(these are different pictures of the same letters)







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  1. moshe weinerJune 19, 2012 at 2:41 AM

    The pai is kosher - no problem.
    The nun is classified as "a nun shvura" because the sway in the middle line, there is some debate in some later melaktim (I think the Csiva Tama - a book quoted by Mishnat Sofrim on Pai, and/or Imrei Shefer) in regard to the kashrus of a nun shvura.
    I think the simple hallacha is that the nun is kosher. IE, there is no specific pasul named "shvura", if the line is not completely severed.

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  2. peretzJune 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM

    in page 241 of your sefer you wrote that it's posul, is that a different case, or only one opinion?

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  3. moshe weinerJune 19, 2012 at 2:51 PM

    Thanks for reminding me, I forgot totally when I had written this.
    But there in the book [on this given issue], I am only melaket what is written in some seforim, but you'll see there from what I brought that there isn't a clear pasul in the "shvura" issue - and the only pisul may be of a shinuy tzura - which I don't see at all in this nun given.

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