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The nuns and daleds make me a little uncomfortable.  Kasher?

What is the din on the pai pshuta of אף? did it become a pai k'fufa or its still a pai pshuta?

I'll be in Connecticut to check tefilin etc. fromה -אלול until I get the job done, which will take a few days. I will need someone to do the sowing of the tefilin, and when I change the retzuos, to make the knots. It will be a full time job for both of us, and good pay. Anyone that knows of someone that would be interested etc. please email me at yyeilenberg@gmail.com Good shobos

I have a set of old tefillin which are probably at best only kosher bedieved, however there is sentimental value so I'm trying the best I can to try and keep them kosher, even bshas hadchak . The customer has a better, newer pair but wants to keep these for rare emergency use. Below are three photos with the shailos: 1) the yud in uvisharecha. the kotz RT is not quite as long as the right regel, besides both are very short - not really a ches. Are these reasons to be meikel? 2) the nunim if veshinantom and hotziyonu. Definitely something is there protruding, is it enough to fix or is it a nun hafucha? Would appreciate Reb Moshe's opinion please. PS The revach from the extra word has holes in it.... PPS Very politically correct sofer, obviously likes both the Arizal and beis Yosef so much he couldn't decide which ksav to write....

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. ?

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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"

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

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