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Mem

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The mem of להם has a slightly narrow moshav due to the right side being on a bit of an inward slant. To me it's not narrow enough to be a real clear samech but I also though it was enough of an incline to post and see what others think. Especially when compared with the other mems. ?

whats the halacha for sfardim for the kuf of bechozek?

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Can anyone recommend a sofer in Silver Spring, MD?

A friend is moving there and asked me about mezuzahs. Know anyone I can send her to?

yud of miyamim?

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kidron

there is a app called kidron that basicly checks teffilin and mezuzas for choser yeter, and chiluf, does anyone know anything about it if its relieble in place of computer check etc.

Hashem Yerachem

http://www.kikarhashabat.co.il/אכלת-אותה-בתוך-התפילין.html

(Pasul) Tefillin on Shabbos

Pasul tefillin that are now opened and used for chinuch - what's their status on Shabbos? Can they be used for chinuch on Shabbos if they're set aside for this? Sources?

Miksha and parsha of shel yad. Am I missing something?

I find that by miksha batim, in the shel yad, many expert sofrim are not makpid that the whole parsha should be in the bayis, and if part protrudes into the titura they are not the slightest bit concerned. In fact, the most mehudar tefillin I check, sold with all the top hiddurim including miksha batim, often have the shel yad parsha protruding deep into the titura.  Yet by non-mikshah batim, these same experts consider it to be a chisoron in hiddur if the above occurs. They hold this (of it being a detraction in hiddur)  even when the parsha does not descend deeper than the titurah elyona or the part of the titurah that is made of the same piece of hide as the bayis. So what am I missing here? If the whole reason why we are not worried about the parsha protruding by miksha is because it's the same ohr in the titurah as the bayis, why be concerned in regular batim when the parsha does not protrude lower than the "filler" and still stays in the space of the upper ohr w

Daled of echad

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I did a shaalas tinok on the Daled of echad, he could not identify which letter it was, even after correctly identifying a regular daled as well as a large echad daled in another mezuza. Is there a sevoro to say that tinok would not apply for the large daled?

careless metayeg

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Looks like the metayeg botched the tug on the hay. Fortunately it did not go into the space of the chof pshutah but I'm a little worried about what it's done to the hay since its all connected. I think though, it's too thin and negligible to cause a shinuy tzurah of the hay.

sofek hey

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see prim"gd siman 32 eishel avraham s"k 33 However we might be more lenient since there is no shita that this is a hay lechatchila as in the m'a cse where the rashb"a holds that foot of hay belongs inward

is it mehudar because it "ALTER REBBE?"

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Short lamed as in last word on line 4,lameds that do not have head only kotz.I am a regular magia not chabad and i find these shailos very often however when I mention the problems to the chabad sofrim they laugh me off with some kind of "reb ruven bla bla bla"

2 M''B Q's

Hi, Amatuer sofer here with 2 Q's on M''B! 1) 32:32 - Above each line one should leave enough space for the top of a lamed (which is a vav..so 3 kulmusim). After that shulchan aruch the rama says to leave "bain hashitim kimlo shitah". Is that referring to the same thing as the shulchan aruch. If not - the MB says that "the sofrim" arent noheg to leave a "kimloh shitah" for teffilin and mezuzos etc....So if the rama is referring to the additional top of the lamed (which the m''b said not to do by mezuzos), how would you write a lamed in the mezuzah? 2) 32::78 - m''b says that if letters keep their tzurah but touch, just remove the connection and it's kosher..whether before or after writing. Seems quite clear! 143:25 - If the connection is in the beginning of the letter, even though there's no shinuy tzurah but "the rest of the letter was written bifsul" (which from my understanding of 32 means u have to

Tzadik Pshutah

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Reb Moshe, would you agree that a tzurah such as the one below ( where the shailo is that it is lacking a yerech but still has the the tzurah of an Arizal Tzadik) is fixable by adding ink in a way that creates a distinct yerech  such as in the red of the second image? UPDATED PICTURE - the previous one was not accurately representing the shailo I was asking

Change in RT

Why is it that only recently we in chabad started leaving space at end of shema in RT? Why the change from before when they finished until end of line?

"Name and Shame" Idea

I received an email this week from a frustrated sofer who is sick and tired of nothing being done to stop unscrupulous vendors selling below par STa"M. While he acknowledges that it is beyond the capabilities and powers of the Vaad and other rabbinical bodies, his idea was to create a website that would "Name and Shame" unscrupulous vendors. In doing so, anyone caught selling fraudulent STa"M would have their business name and a picture of the item sold. While I think it's a good idea in theory, and may act as a good deterrent, I see a number of problems arising from this idea: 1) Whoever does it will need to dedicate a lot of time and effort into maintaining and monitoring the site without remuneration. 2) There may be legal / defamation issues to deal with. 3) Where is the line drawn? Do people selling items that are bedieved (as mehudar or otherwise) also make the cut? If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on this please feel free to comment.

Is there anything that would make this mezuza passul?

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Yad kesher

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Is there an inyan to makpid on the angel of the end of the Yad kesher wether to the right or left?

Two Mezuzos On One Doorway

I understand some poskim rule in some doubtful situations (when it is uncertain which side of the doorway the mezuzah belongs) to place a mezuzah on each side. Placing two mezuzos in such a situation is not Baal Toisif, according to these poskim. Can anyone please advise the makor for this practice?
A Sofer I know posted an image of a mezuzah he wrote to show off his proud handiwork. I noticed that the yuddin in the Heh's in the Shem Hashem are all written exactly the same as a regular Heh, ie as an upside down yud. However I learned that all the hehs in Sheimos Hakedoshos should be written distinctly and differently, for the first Heh and the second, ie first heh with a tag _ and second Heh with a tag | to be meshane the Sheimos hakedoshos as an added fence for kavanah LeShem. Is this a problem to be concerned with if I see a mezuzah like the one described above with all hehes written the same.  I asked him about it and he did not respond.  Maybe he wasn't taught it or doesnt know.