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A little ink got smudged in a bad place - inside the Reish. Can this be a shinui tzura to Hei? The smudged ink is rather small but I’m curious to know your opinions.
Thank you They are two small dots, the upper right one is darker while the other one is less dark. It was a smudge that happened while I was writing the next words. My biggest concern is if there is a shiur to be considered a little yud of a Hei - although each dot is very small by itself.
By the way, I got a psak leheter because the smudge is two dots, and one of them is actually just out of the area of the roof. Question then becomes if the two small dots can be mitztaref lehumra, but apparently we don't say that. I was told that there's discussion is regards to joining two dots lekula - I'm interested if anyone has more info on that. I was encouraged to make a Sheilas Tinok to be extra sure, and it resulted in it being indeed a Resh, not Hey. Thank you and git voch
We all know that there is no ancient source that requires ink to be מן המותר בפיך . Possibly, as said here before, because in the olden days ink was always מן המותר בפיך and the question was never raised. It was probably self-evident. Nowadays, no decent Rav will approve an ink which is not מן המותר בפיך . Who was the first one to raise this question? Was it raised because of animal ingredients or because of non-kosher wine?
Thank you for commenting on my ink article. In your comment you stated: "Many poskim disagree... Many rishonim have clearly stated the use of our ingredients." Would you please be kind enough to teach us (so I can include it in the article) which Poskim and what exactly and where did they say that the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink is preferable over good quality דיו עשן that does not fail? We are not interested in biased פילפולים , or in those who said that דיו עשן is not being used because it fails easily or because it was not known how to make good quality דיו עשן. Nor are we interested in those who said to use עפצים וקנקנתום וגומא ואין לשנות when they discussed specifically the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink. We are interested to find out where and who (if any) said explicitly, based on sources, that the עפצים וקנקנתום type of ink is preferable over good quality דיו עשן , even when there is דיו עשן of good quality that does not ...
Is it dark? (Photo not always accurate)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful ksav btw
Thank you
DeleteThey are two small dots, the upper right one is darker while the other one is less dark. It was a smudge that happened while I was writing the next words. My biggest concern is if there is a shiur to be considered a little yud of a Hei - although each dot is very small by itself.
By the way, I got a psak leheter because the smudge is two dots, and one of them is actually just out of the area of the roof. Question then becomes if the two small dots can be mitztaref lehumra, but apparently we don't say that. I was told that there's discussion is regards to joining two dots lekula - I'm interested if anyone has more info on that.
ReplyDeleteI was encouraged to make a Sheilas Tinok to be extra sure, and it resulted in it being indeed a Resh, not Hey.
Thank you and git voch