I received this question via email. I am not really a klaf expert, I was wondering if anyone could answer this question: Dear Rabbi Gutnick, I am writing to you because a good friend of mine has put the idea into my head that the klaf in my tefillin were not really tanned and therefore are not kosher. He referred me to Megilla 19a re diftera. From the research that I have done so far, it seems that the klaf that is used today is tanned only with a lime wash. On all of the tanning websites I’ve seen so far, they say that the lime doesn’t accomplish tanning but only the removal of the hair and some other pre-tanning effects. Would you be able to explain to me or refer me to a website that explains how the tanning process that is used today takes the hide out of the category of diftera? Thank you very much.
I got my copy direct from the author. +972-2-623-4070. IIRC, he only speaks Hebrew & Yiddish.
ReplyDeleteDid he ship it to America?
ReplyDelete2 of the volumes are available in judaica world, (they aren't cheap)
ReplyDeletethere is a Ruvain Mendlowitz who just wrote an english book on stam for the laymam which looks pretty good
ReplyDeleteThis book by R. Reuven Mendelowitz is indeed very good - called Inside STaM. The footnotes and endnotes are in Hebrew but the main text is in English.
DeleteIt indeed look very good! However from what I've heard I believe he is a bit more on the side l'hachmir. For educational purposes and learning (and for the layman) it can give a lot of good yedias
Deleteyes I only glanced through it but I saw a picture of a kuba or zanav which he passeled which seemed very machmir
Deletewhere could you get the sefer yalkut stam?
ReplyDeleteIts a great sefer giving many yedios-the real good part is that THE PARTY THE JUDAICA STORES HAD IS OVER FOR SOMEBODY READING THE SEFER however if somebody with OCD gets hold of it.........nothing will be good enough
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
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