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A Gutte Voch, Despite it being  better to use sayros (hairs) from davka an egel (calf) when wrapping tefillin parshiyos, most sofrim I know use from an older cow  because the egel hairs are generally too short to wrap around properly (esp by vehoya im shamoah where the sayros must be long to extend externally). I have recently been told about a species of calf that have longer tails despite being very young and this is ideal for a sofer to use when wrapping tefillin. Can anyone provide more info on this? Does anyone know where such tails can be obtained? Thanks

Using a guest account to post this question. My email is RebYonason@gmail.com. Thank you. My new all black retzuos have lots of visible particles that come off every day (first time using all black and realizing this makes the particles much more noticeable) It's been 7 months since I bought them new but they keep shedding little pieces. I place a new piece of paper down when I take them out every day and the black dust falls off every time. I have to keep putting the paper with the tefillin dust in shaimos all the time. I've tried going over the retzuos many times with cloth to collect all the loose pieces but it doesn't seem to stop it at all, and it in fact ends up just rubbing away some of the ink on the flat shiny side. How do I stop this issue? Are there any shitas to rely on that once the particles leave the tefillin they are no longer kadosh? Right now the best I can do is to say "asey docheh lo sasei" in terms of being m'kayem the mitzvah while ...

(Customer is ashkenazi)

סעיף ט"ז ביאו"ה ד"ה כשנכתב בכשרות מדבריו עולה דדוקא משום דנקטינן כדה"ח דנגיעה לאחר הכתיבה פוסלת רק מספיקא דדינא לכן אין מוציאין ס"ת אחרת בנמצא בשעת הקריאה. אבל אם היינו סוברים כדבר משה דס"ל דנגיעה אפי' לאחר הכתיבה פסול מודאי לכו"ע אז היינו מוציאין אחרת. ובאמת צ"ע. דלפי"ז יוצא דבנגעה לאחר גמר שיעור האות קודם שסילק ידיו - דגם לתי' השני שבב"י פסול דחשוב כשעת הכתיבה עדיין כל זמן שלא סילק ידיו - צריך להוציא אחרת. אבל בסי' קמ"ג כ' להדיא דמדמכשיר הרשב"א "נגיעה למטה" (והוא מהירושלמי דמכשיר בנגיעה לאחר שגמר צורתו אפי' קודם שסילק ידו) לכן אין מוציאין אחרת בכה"ג - אע"פ דב' תירוצי הב"י מודים בזה דפסול. ולפי"ז, אפי' אם היינו סוברים כדבר משה דב' תירוצי הב"י פוסלים נגיעה לאחר הכתיבה, מ"מ מדהכשיר הרשב"א יש לנו לצרפו לס"ס ולא להוציא אחרת. וא"כ יוצא דאין שום נ"מ למעשה אי פוסלין נגיעה לאחר הכתיבה מספק או בתורת ודאי. וצ"ע. ואבקש מהקוראים להעיר...

I'm not sure if we've discussed this before but do the halachos of Kuba / Zanav also apply to Tefillin? I know there are some that say it does, but what is the halacha lemaysa?

האם הרי"ש הזו מועיל בה שאלת תינוק ותיקון, או לא?

We require 9 Yudin plus a little more in order to represent the 8 chut hasaara spaces between each Yud. How much more? What are the opinions of the poskim?

Rabbi Winer felt that a tinok helps  for this zein why then can a tinok not help for the vav in the following post? ברייתא : לא יעשה ואוין יודין יודין ואוין לא יעשה זיינין  נונין נונין זיינין

הו' הזה הוא נו"ן פשוטה ממש, ופסולה

http://themezuza.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post.html

Does anyone have them? They often have articles on STaM. I'm particularly interested in #11 page 332.

Is the sefer Yalkut Tzuras Haotiyos ()Vaad Mishmeres Stam, 1983) still available? Thanks for suggestions.

In the Mishnah Brurah by ois daled, it is written that the protrusion on the back of the top left of the daled is only lechatchillah le ksivah and a square corner is enough halachically to render it kosher. By a reish however, many poskim hold that even if it is a square corner on the top right (instead of being round), it is not possul but rather a shailos tinok (see mishnas hasofer). A tinok will inevitably read it as a reish, even with a perfectly square corner) because he is used to the daled protruding on the top right. So is this the only case in Sta"m where one tzurah can potentially be Kosher for two different letters? And how is such a phenomenon possible?

http://ezparasha.blogspot.com/2016/10/blog-post.html

A gutn moed!

gut moed!

http://torahscrolls.blogspot.com/2016/10/blog-post.html

http://jerusalemyarmulka.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=36&ProductId=1308 did anybody try these? I heard the ball bearings imside make it heavy

If someone brings tefillin for checking and I see the retzuos are cracked or have white marks and subsequently possul, do I need to tell them to put on tefillin again if it is still before shkiyah? (Or can we rely on the more lenient opinions?)