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
It says clearly in the Sha'ar Ha'tziyun that
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that means in truth there is no difference between a ngiya at the top of the letters, or the bottom.
The chidush the MB is posing: although the Rashba (and many others) hold, that a negiya at the bottom of the letter is not pasul, because it is after the letter was finished [see MA 32:5, and MB ibid:12] maybe one should be machmir not to erase this negiya by a shem, since according to the Rashba it is a chashash mechikas hashem and no need to scrape for hekef gvil.
Nevertheless we completely follow the shita of the SA that any negiya [top or bottom] is pasul and must be erased, also in a shem.
Yasher Koach
ReplyDeleteMy shaar hatziyun has the abbreviations spelled out and it says כמה שכתב הפרי מגדים למעלה otherwise I wouldn't have asked.