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I just received a batch of mezuzos, it's a simple but Halachically sound ksav and overall easy to check. However there is one issue that keeps coming up with the letter reish, namely the sofer wrote some of them a little too square on the top right... not a zavis chada (ie a sharp corner which would be possul) but a fraction less than that and a little too square for my liking. The halacha in such a case (Mishnas Hasofer and others) is to make a shailos tinok. However I find that the child always reads it as a reish, because they are used to a daled protruding on the top right and these obviously do not, even in the worst cases. So my question is, how useful is a shailos tinok here and does anyone have any other more practical guidelines on how to deal with this case?

does any one have, or know where I can get Sheurim in Kesses and M.B. in english or Heberew?

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Does anyone have an English translation of Keses Hasofer's 5th chapter on tzuras haosiyos? I would like to quote it in a paper, so I am looking for a translation with no copyright problems. Thanks a lot.

שלום הרב אלי, קיבלתי את המייל שלך, שיש לך פורום בינלאומי לענייני סת"ם. אשמח אם תפרסם שם את ההודעה הבאה: יש לנו קבוצה בווצאפ, המיועדת למי שעוסק בסגירה ושיפוץ בתי תפילין. הקבוצה מיועדת אך ורק למי שעוסק במקצוע. בקבוצה נמצאים יצרני תפילין, ומורים המלמדים סגירה. בקבוצה נמצאים חברים מארץ הקודש והעולם. מי שמעוניין, שישלח הודעת ווצאפ ל-  +972 50-410-6417 בברכת התורה.

15cm sefer is a bit too small to let kesivas osiyos, anyone ever heard of doing sewing instead?

R' Melech Michaels is a talmid of R' Avrohom Tzvi Wosner and has kabboloh from the Va'ad Mishmereth Sta"m. There's also an incidental product placement for Beis HaSta"m.

The reish from "Geoffrey" . The Gett was already written and sent with a shliach, and the shailo noticed by the receiving Beis Din. So it cannot be fixed... Does it need to be rewritten?

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This yid owns a car dealership and is very proud of his mezuzah at the entrance to his show room: But is such a case Halachically acceptable?