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
Kosher tzurah
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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