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18 Av 5770. - Scheduled completion of sefer Torah:
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Put the finishing touches on the third parchment sheet today and started on the fourth. This yeria takes us through the flood & drunkenness of Noach (Noah) and up to the birth of Avram.
All-in-all, the writing is going well, but the klaf here exhibited a few oddities. In particular it was prone to smudges – which indicates that it is a little too moist. I was able to clean off most of it off. These sorts of problems are always par for the course when working with non-synthetic materials.
[See here for more pictures...]
Placing of the Rainbow as a sign of the covenant
The Birth of Avram
G-d's covenant to never again destroy the world
The 11th Amud (Column)
The Ark comes to rest upon Mt. Ararat
Gut Shabbos!
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God Bless you.
Comment by Henry Wasserman — October 25, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
Cany you tell us whey those raysh’es and lamechs and heys and chets are streeeeeeeetched way across the page? And way there are some really long stretches of white space?
Comment by Henry Wasserman — October 25, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
The layout of a Torah scroll is very precise. The text is divided into over 660 paragraphs which are delineated by spaces of at least 9 letters in width. A sofer cannot create or insert new gaps because he would effectively be splitting up sections and creating new paragraphs! Therefore, every line must be full from the start till the end. Gaps are only allowed when a new paragraph commences. Sometimes you don’t have enough letters in a line to fill it till the end, so you have to stretch the text to make it fit. The easiest letters to stretch without overly damaging legibility are the raysh, heh, dalet, and lamed. It is permissible to stretch some other letters as well, but I find that these are the easiest. Good questions!
Comment by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer — October 29, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
ve-khen otkha! And you too!
Comment by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer — October 29, 2009 @ 10:54 pm