who writes stam in Israel
I was asked to put together a list of who writes stam in Israel.
I know that the following facts are accurate:
1) about 50% of frum/ heimishe sofrim writing today do not have ksav kabollah betokef
2) about 50 % of stam produced is not written by frum heimishe sofrim, they are written by "shababniks" and questionably frum persons
3) A small percentage is written by non frum / women/ arabs
Therefore I came up with the following:
If anyone thinks I have got it wrong please let me know. Thanks
I know that the following facts are accurate:
1) about 50% of frum/ heimishe sofrim writing today do not have ksav kabollah betokef
2) about 50 % of stam produced is not written by frum heimishe sofrim, they are written by "shababniks" and questionably frum persons
3) A small percentage is written by non frum / women/ arabs
Therefore I came up with the following:
•Frum / Heimishe sofrim with Ksav Kaballah
Constitutes
approx 20% of Today’s Sofrim – Most of these write Mehudar for Charedi Private Market
•Frum / Heimishe sofrim without Ksav Kaballah
Constitutes approx
15% of Todays Sofrim or just
under half of the frum market.
Again, many of these write Mehudar but will often write for wholesalers due to lack of Kaballah .
•Shababniks / yeshivah dropouts and university students
“questionably” frum Jewish males of all ages (most without ksav kabollah) –
As per Rabbi Mendelowitz’s book
Constitutes 50% of “Sofrim” producing Sta”m today . Most of
the “non Mehudar /Mivtzoim style” Stam is written by such sofrim. Virtually all such sofrim write for sochrim or agents. Most of these end up sold to other wholesalers or retailers such as Judaica shops. Because of
these “layers” , a wholesaler or
retailer will often have no idea about the type of person who really writes the
stam.
•Totally Non-Frum /
Females / Arabs
This constitutes 15% (conservative figure)
of the market and are often sold by non frum wholesalers to non religious suvenier shiops in Israel and
online. These don’t often make it to frum wholesalers or frum owned Judaica shops.
If anyone thinks I have got it wrong please let me know. Thanks
Do you need to have a ksav Kabolla?
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