daled hafucha. possul?

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The first zayin is possul (its a daled hafucha) according to all the seforim I checked. Can anyone find a tzad to be machshir?





See the picures above after I 1) cropped off the tagin (which were anyway not written toch kedai kesivah) and 2) after I inverted it. It's mamash a kosher daled.

This mezuzah also has many tagin not mechubar, and beisim which are round on top right - both bedieved which normally I would have fixed, had it not been for the zayin/daled hafucha.

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  1. moshe weinerOctober 18, 2012 at 8:37 AM

    I think a shylas tinok is accepted in this regard, the resemblence to a dalet hafucha doesn't automaticaly pasel the letter.
    I wrote about this on the hebrew blog somewhere along.

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  2. Yerachmiel AskotzkyOctober 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM

    Whether it's a psul is dependent on the length of the rosh protruding to the right of the regel. In this case I'd ask a shailas chacham.

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    1. Rabbi Eli GutnickOctober 18, 2012 at 10:31 PM

      I have emailed the shaila to Rabbi Greenfeld and am waiting for a response

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  3. Beis HastamOctober 21, 2012 at 3:45 PM

    in my experience rabbi greenfield is very machmir on wide letter zayin,I really would like to see if he feels a tinok would help on this one

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  4. Rabbi Eli GutnickOctober 22, 2012 at 7:32 AM

    I have sent him 2 emails, what's his number?

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  5. Rabbi Eli GutnickOctober 23, 2012 at 6:25 PM

    I finally received a response from rav Greefeld this morning where he passelled it

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  6. Yerachmiel AskotzkyOctober 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM

    I was asked to show the shaila to Rav Friedlander. It printed out large. Rav Friedlander said that in a mezuzah size it would be kosher. He also suggested showing it to a tinok even though the tinok wouldn't know what other letter to call it.Bottom line he said it would be best to replace.
    I mention that it printed out large b/c he said that Rav Elyashiv had seen a similar shaila in a large size and passuled it yet when it was showed to him in the actual size he was machshir. When they told him that he had seen it in the larger size and have passuled it he was surprised. It seems to make a worse impression when enlarged.

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