Dear Readers and Members, The forum has been down for over 6 months because the domain name (www.stamforum.com) lapsed and it is no longer available to re purchase. Although this forum is now defunct (it has morphed into several whatsapp groups), I have had many requests to put it back online because it contains so much information (over 1,800 posts and thousands of comments in the discussions, on a wide range of topics related to STa"M). I have therefore put the forum back online at blogger, so the address is www.stamforum.blogspot.com. The forum lasted for a decade...not a bad effort! It was pretty popular back in the days before whatsapp and managed to receive over a million hits in it's short life. It was one of the only organised forums in the STa"M world and definitely the largest in it's heyday. I would like to thank all those who cobtributed over the years, particularly the early members who helped build it up. Thanking you all, Eli
Rashba, Avnei Nezer, Radach. Maybe Chayei Adam.
ReplyDeleteWriting Tagim together as you write the letters Gr"a.
ReplyDeleteNo negiahs at all at any time of the ksiva, do not know the makor to this but I heard it is called Brisker chumra.
The only ink which is mehudar לכולי עלמא is Dio Lanetzach.
ReplyDeleteדיו עשן למצוה מן המובחר שאינו נפגם ואינו נפסל
To have all the Chumrot you must make sure that there are no poskim who say on the ink that it is Possul. And it must comply with:
"ספרים בעינן דבר המתקיים לעולם" (רשב"א), "שיתקיים אלפי שנים" (רמב"ם), "עיקר מעלת הדיו היינו שהוא דבר של קיימא" (צמח צדק), "אין כותבין ספרים רק בדבר המתקיים לעולם" (אבני יעקב). י
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mikva before writing each shem HaShem
ReplyDeleteThis is something which is not so simple, although I hear that many mekubalim are in favor of. See Sheari Teshuva 32:3 it is most proper to write all the tefillin parshiyos (the same applies to mezuza lichora) without making a hefsek, there reffering to dibur, but unless one has a mikva in their home how will they not speak at all.
DeleteOf course the Sheari Teshuva is referring Lichatchila.
What is R" Moshe's opinion on mikva before each Shem Hashem?
Here are some hiddurim you may want to consider:
ReplyDelete1) Making sure the ibbud of the klaf was done lishmah for mezuzah (without one fits all tenai)
2) if you make a negiya, even one which is not shinuy tzurah, wait until the ink dries, erase most of the letter so that there is no tzurah and rewrite properly
3)Don't talk or listen to any audio during writing
4) If ksav Arizal - besides for making the tagei lamed right higher than left, make the ches with right side of chototeres thicker than left side.
Besides for Tfillin,Is there a Makor that a Mezuza should be written without a Hefsek?
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