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The second zayin looks a bit like a nun-sofit to me. The dalet of לדבר looks like a dalet, although it looks a bit more like B"Y than Sepharadi.
ReplyDeleteThe second zayin of Mezuzot is long, but the foot does not reach the disqualifying length of 3 kolmosim. As such, in this case, we have a safek of how it will be read, so we must show it to a tinok. If read as a ZAYIN we may go ahead and scrape a bit of the length. If not, Passul.
ReplyDeleteThe Daleth does not look like a Zayin. Kasher
The Boro Park poskim would passel the zayin but alow the daled (proob with tinok).
ReplyDeleteThe Yerushalmi poskim would passel the daled and allow the zayin (prob with tinok)
Rav Friedlander was machshir the Nun. No tinok required. He said the Dalet required a tinok and if he was machshir, it was kosher "bedieved shebedieved".
ReplyDelete"Rav Friedlander was machsir the nun", that means that the zayin is passul?
ReplyDeleteIf the daled is kosher, i think the vav of uv'lechtecha would be a kosher raish or at least a shaalas tinok.
The zayin looks like its the same length as the nun of תתן
ReplyDeleteWhoops! machshir the Zayin! Thanks for catching that!
ReplyDeleteThe nun of תתן is longer and goes down lower than the surrounding letters. Also, note one these pictures are from different ksavim.
ReplyDeleteVav of uvlechtcha is a ST at worst. I think it just makes it.