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Klaff Tanning question:
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Rabbi Eli Gutnick
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I received this question via email. I am not really a klaf expert, I was wondering if anyone could answer this question: Dear Rabbi Gutnick, I am writing to you because a good friend of mine has put the idea into my head that the klaf in my tefillin were not really tanned and therefore are not kosher. He referred me to Megilla 19a re diftera. From the research that I have done so far, it seems that the klaf that is used today is tanned only with a lime wash. On all of the tanning websites I’ve seen so far, they say that the lime doesn’t accomplish tanning but only the removal of the hair and some other pre-tanning effects. Would you be able to explain to me or refer me to a website that explains how the tanning process that is used today takes the hide out of the category of diftera? Thank you very much.
The forum is back online...for reference and research purposes.
By
Rabbi Eli Gutnick
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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
Wot?
ReplyDeleteThis is beyond unbelievable! Had no one noticed for all the years?
ReplyDeleteSome J4Js have "shittas" about what their so-called tefillin should look like. Could your customer have gotten it from one of their online stores?
ReplyDeleteNeed to find out where they were sourced
ReplyDelete???? surely some kind of prank? Are these for real?
ReplyDeleteI asked a rov from eretz Yisrael that is involved in stam and batim manufacture told me that the Rama Mipano in his teshuvos brings such a shita and that there are those in Eretz Yisrael that manufacture teffilin like this to be yotzi his shita as the Rama Mipano was one of the chashuvei gurei ari
ReplyDeleteאני לא מאמין שמישהו יגיד דבר כזה !!
Deleteזה נגד גמרא מפורשת במנחות (דף לה) שרק שתי פרשיות חיצוניות רואות אויר ושתי פרשיות פנימיות אינן רואות את האויר
גם הסתכלתי בשו"ת רמ"ע מפאנו סימן קז ולא נזכר כלל סברא כזו
I asked him where it is brought down he didn't remember I told him i think its a Christian thing and he said no there is such a shita
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