http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/10/third-yeria-done-120-of-the-way-there/ Congregation Toras Chaim of Dallas writes a sefer Torah Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:34:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/10/third-yeria-done-120-of-the-way-there/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:54:56 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=673#comment-163 ve-khen otkha! And you too! ve-khen otkha! And you too!

]]> http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/10/third-yeria-done-120-of-the-way-there/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:54:24 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=673#comment-162 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! 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!

]]> http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/10/third-yeria-done-120-of-the-way-there/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Henry Wasserman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:07:46 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=673#comment-159 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? 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?

]]> http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/10/third-yeria-done-120-of-the-way-there/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Henry Wasserman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:05:55 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=673#comment-158 God Bless you. God Bless you.

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