negiya
Tinok read as mem and zayin without hesitating. tinok is familliar with ches of stam
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...
After the tinok recognized the letters - they are such, and you may scrape the ngiya.
ReplyDeleteAlthough here it is simple, this indeed [in other cases] is sometimes complicated.
It could also be read as kaf touching chet. So which one do we go by?
ReplyDeleteAlthough it could possibly be read as a Khaf touching a Chet, the tinok read MEM-ZAYIN so that is what we go by.
DeleteAccording to reb moshe: the tinok
DeleteWhy don't we say that since the negiot are the same size and thickness and it could just as easily be a kaf-Chet that a tinok doesn't help because another tinok could just as easily read kaf-Chet? Ie like a mem stuma with one rounded corner and one square corner?
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at it in real life, the thickness of the connecting line of the mem is substantially thicker than the negiya
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