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There is a small hole under the yud of v'yitzharecha. When looking at against the light with the naked eye it looks like it is touching the yud but when you blow up the picture or look through a magnifying glass, you can tell that there is a separation and the letter is in fact mukaf g'vil.
Does it need to be corrected, presumably by scraping off a bit of the bottom of the yud? (MB 32:60)
Gut moed (assumption is that the hole was there b'shas kesiva) If the hole doesn't appear to be against the edge of the letter when looking at it with the naked eye (20/20 vision) with normal overhead light then it need not be fixed. If it appears to be touching kneged hashemesh (background light) then this doesn't require it to be fixed. Magnification is used to confirm what one sees with normal vision. It's not kovea on its own lekula or lechumra.
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 ...
Gut moed
ReplyDelete(assumption is that the hole was there b'shas kesiva) If the hole doesn't appear to be against the edge of the letter when looking at it with the naked eye (20/20 vision) with normal overhead light then it need not be fixed. If it appears to be touching kneged hashemesh (background light) then this doesn't require it to be fixed. Magnification is used to confirm what one sees with normal vision. It's not kovea on its own lekula or lechumra.