Thank you for commenting on my ink article. In your comment you stated: "Many poskim disagree... Many rishonim have clearly stated the use of our ingredients." Would you please be kind enough to teach us (so I can include it in the article) which Poskim and what exactly and where did they say that the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink is preferable over good quality דיו עשן that does not fail? We are not interested in biased פילפולים , or in those who said that דיו עשן is not being used because it fails easily or because it was not known how to make good quality דיו עשן. Nor are we interested in those who said to use עפצים וקנקנתום וגומא ואין לשנות when they discussed specifically the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink. We are interested to find out where and who (if any) said explicitly, based on sources, that the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink is preferable over good quality דיו עשן , even when there is דיו עשן of good quality that does not ...
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.