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Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz clarifies his position on Ksav Chabad (and my final thoughts)
Last week I posted some thoughts in response to a public lecture given by Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz regarding Ksav Chabad (the Alter Rebbe's ksav). I felt he did not represent the issue fairly, and since I had received questions about it from a number of people I felt it made sense to write a general response. After I posted my response on this forum, Rabbi Mendlowitz reached out to me by email and we ended up having a respectful and productive email exchange regarding the relevant issues surrounding Ksav Chabad. His position is a lot clearer to me now, and I think he also took certain things on board that I clarified with him. The purpose of the Stam Forum (at least back in it's heyday before all the whats app groups took over) was to connect sofrim from around the world, to promote achdus and build bridges, as well as to offer support and advice. In that spirit, I felt I should write a follow up post, to clarify some of the issues and misconception...
when I was doing shimush I remember learning that if it is a small negiya and the regel of the yud does not reach as far down as the top of the moshav it is ok to make shailos tinuk. I think rav shtern paskens the same way in mishnas hasofer with a beis, although I do not have the sefer handy...
ReplyDeleteA shailos tinnok or perhaps ok the way it is. A shailos tinnok comes when there is a sofek and I personally don't have a sofek in this b'frat that the chof clearly looks like a chof and the yud doesn't seem to be affecting it so much (I've seen worse cases.) I would thing both psakim would be reasonable. Pasul would surprise me (however perhaps depending who says it! ;)
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