Help shaaloh on a tof. I was writing and this taf got filled in if someone could answer i would really apreciate it.
How about the Bais of Uleovdo?
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The rule is that if the inside is an upside down V and the top of the V is pointy ie the two raglayim are touching each other at that point without any gug (to square off the top of the V)then it is a shinuy tzurah. So I was instructed by Rav Friedlander. Thefefore this case its hard to be machshir.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Reb Moshe would like to pasken
Someone showed in the book mishnas hasofer page tzatik alef a yalkut sofer at the end that he is machshir
ReplyDeleteany feedback would be appreciated in yalkut he seems to be medameh a top part of a letter to a bottom one i wonder what was rabbi friedlanders moker to be machmir i even think in this case there is a part which goes a little bit on a lesser slant
ReplyDeleteworse case you can still go back from end of Shma and be megarrer until the tav assuming you did not write the next parsha of vehaya. Theres no shem HaShem. Are these rabbenu tam ? To me the tsurah is still a tav.
ReplyDeletethese are rabeinu tam already wrote vehaya
ReplyDeleteI think it must be shown to a posek
ReplyDeleteRabi vazner paskened that ot is kpsher and can be scraped off
ReplyDeleteRabi vazner paskened that ot is kpsher and can be scraped off
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