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
I may be wrong but the Eidah ones are avodas yad and most others are machine.
ReplyDeleteIf they are thicker and not as refined they are generally avodas yad.
DeleteI once heard from a very knowledgeable Socher that he is not aware of any machine-made Gidim currently being produced. But I suppose he could be wrong. It seems there is very little transparency about the production of Gidim, even less than Batim, for example.
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