zayin is complicated letter
head of zayin should be square ,regel shal not be long
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...
At worst some of these may be shailos tinok but I don't see them being read incorrectly...
ReplyDeleteulezikaron is for sure posul
ReplyDeletethe wide ones may be shalas tinok , the point of posting it is that wide zayins although not posul it is wrong to write like this. Furthermore a zayin witha gag instead of a rosh may be considered shinui tzurah and is certainly not mehudar