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
were they opened or closed?
ReplyDeleteSpeculations are risky. Good kosher Tefillin are not placed in gnizah without a reason. He could have made a prohibited correction and later discovered that it was prohibited; he could have discovered something else wrong with them, that cannot be inspected (i.e. non-kosher klaf); and who knows what else.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Rabbi Groner personally told me that the Rebbe held that if the Tefillin are good according to the Chabad minhag, except for the Ktav being not Alter-Rebbe, then, the Tefillin should not be replaced.
it was closed
ReplyDeleteTefillin in a Genizah are Hefker. They have no owner. The fact that they are closed means that they were not invalidated after being checked.
ReplyDeleteYour friend can certainly have them checked. If they are good, by all means they should be put to good use.