Is this ת kosher? Fixable in tefillin or mezuzos?
How about the Bais of Uleovdo?
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I received a response from one of our members: Why can't you ask a child? The shaaloh is, is it a ches. But this type of ches - without the chatoteres - he is familiar with! So he would give you a genuine answer if it looks like a ches or a tof!
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ReplyDeleteA fair point. But we have a second problem I didn't even discuss, that it is potentially a safek kav mashuch. So even if a child reads it correctly, not everyone would allow fixing. Some poskim are machmir if for example if this was a lower foot of an aleph. There's no shinuy tzurah there (to another letter) but its still unable to be fixed according to them.
But I'm pretty sure you cannot allow a shalos tinok involving any type of ches. It works both ways. Because you would need to show some tavs and chesses from the same ksav before showing a questionable letter. So this would certainly confuse the child. And if he reads the chesses correctly, he will certainly read this as a tav (since its different from the others)!
So this whole topic is not so simple. If anyone has a source for where this might be discussed, please post for clarity. Or if they have further insight from their own research please
See Kesiva Tama Kehilchasa and Yerios Shlomo chelek Gimel. They suggest that as long as the kav is shavur that suffices. While one can just based on images, the image in KTK looks worse while in YS it looks better than your sample.
ReplyDeleteRav Reuvain Mendlowitz suggests that Rav Friedlander would likely have said to put such a mezuzahs or parsha away. (He generally didn't say pasul. Rather for new Stam he'd say to give it back to the sofer and for used stam he'd generally say to put it away.) He also suggests that there could be more room for leniency when it's just a shaila of kav mashuch but here it's also a possible Ches.
*while one can't judge based on images...
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