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Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz clarifies his position on Ksav Chabad (and my final thoughts)
Last week I posted some thoughts in response to a public lecture given by Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz regarding Ksav Chabad (the Alter Rebbe's ksav). I felt he did not represent the issue fairly, and since I had received questions about it from a number of people I felt it made sense to write a general response. After I posted my response on this forum, Rabbi Mendlowitz reached out to me by email and we ended up having a respectful and productive email exchange regarding the relevant issues surrounding Ksav Chabad. His position is a lot clearer to me now, and I think he also took certain things on board that I clarified with him. The purpose of the Stam Forum (at least back in it's heyday before all the whats app groups took over) was to connect sofrim from around the world, to promote achdus and build bridges, as well as to offer support and advice. In that spirit, I felt I should write a follow up post, to clarify some of the issues and misconception...
It seems to me that it's Passul.
ReplyDeleteHowever, separating the Parshiyos may be a solution.
I thought so too but seems there are many opinions that it's not meakev (even with no gap at all) see Mishnas hasofer siman 26.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I was thinking to fix by erasing from the shem and rewriting the last few words more compact, thereby creating a proper space...
I thought so too but seems there are many opinions that it's not meakev (even with no gap at all) see Mishnas hasofer siman 26.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I was thinking to fix by erasing from the shem and rewriting the last few words more compact, thereby creating a proper space...
this mistake happened because sofer used rashi tikun, if it was never used as rabeinu tam yet perhaps you can cut it up and glue it back as a rashi.
ReplyDeleteGood idea, but they are not new, they have been used as r"t for 20 years so would be problematic to switch to Rashi because already used for R"T
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