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...
all the nuns are kosher, the only one that its gag is to long is האמנתם
ReplyDeletebut even that one bdieved seems to be kosher (I dont know if there is a possibility to fix it)
If the gag of the nun of hemantem is extended in the back to the right side too much, why not just enlarge the back of the nun by widening it a little?
ReplyDeletei do that, sometimes together with extending the moshav a bit on th eleft
ReplyDeleteI would find out
ReplyDelete1)if the sofer has kabala
2) if the metayeg has kabala and what type of ink he used since it is clear the tagim were done later by some other fellow