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 ...
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ReplyDeletefirst we must know if the thin head was made later by a tagimmaker or was there originally.
ReplyDeletesecond we need cllarification in אין שיעור לעובי האותיות
a beis with thin tag is kosher but with thick tag can be a lamed.
how about lamed with regular body and very thin vav on top that looks like chaf with kotz?
perhaps the machlokes avnei nezer and mikdas me-at by hay of shem al pi kabala that has kotz and may look like koof if thicker
maybe reb moshe can clarify the אין שיעור לעובי אותיות
You can generally tell if something was made by a metayeg since most metaygim use rapidograph ink which is matte and which contrasts the regular ink. Its easy for dovid to see in good light. However to me it does not look like the type of thing a metayeg would have done, as a matter of fact it looks like the sofer himself made the tagin on this nun, perhaps because of the precariousness of the situation.
Deletejust looked again and the second beis is also problamatic-rav stern is machshir bdieved (top and bottom strokes meet on the inside)
ReplyDeleteI missed these posts while away. The nun and beis look fine to me.
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