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
Great question- I had a thought. If a shem hashem is written top to bottom may it be erased? I did not find the answer in hilchos stam however in hilchos shabbas כותב ומוחק the m"b discusses the issue.I dont have chelek gimel here. I believe same would apply here
ReplyDeleteאפשר שיש לפסול כהאי גוונא - משום שראינו בחז"ל שמגילה יש בה דיני ספר, וכל ספר נגלל מצד לצד, ולא הפוך ממטה למעלה וכדומה, ואפשר שאין זה קרוי ספר
ReplyDeleteנכון שלא מצאתי דבר זה בכתובים, אבל מסברא נראה כן
יישר כח על השאלה המענינית
To clarify, I refer to writing side to side but columns would be one below the other.
ReplyDeleteThe person wanted to claim that since a megillah is an igeres and supposedly royal proclamations were written in such a fashion that it would be the crrect way to write it.
As it's obviously not the mesorah and has always been written in the same format as a sefer I told him to provide sources and a gadol who permits it.