http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/ soferstam Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:50:23 GMT Frum Yidd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/155 I am a dealer in Tzfat. Please send me samples of Ashkenaz, finished, Regular size, new Torah's with good prices. Also, if anyone needs, tefillin, mezuzos or Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:59:51 GMT Frum Yidd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/154 I am looking for writers whom I can purchase from directly at good rates and whom I can be confident in their halcha and puirty. If you can write for me Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:47:09 GMT Mordechai Pinchas/Marc Michaels http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/153 I came across a Tikkun in the home of a Yemenite Jew in Yehud last week (was there for nephew's bar mitsvah) with several differences. I noted them all down Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:12:17 GMT Mordechai Pinchas/Marc Michaels http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/152 Personally I use them on gittin because the reservoir helps speed the process, but won't use them on kitvey hakodesh because a) they don't feel right even if Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:19:16 GMT Frum Yidd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/151 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/151 What are the opinions on using the plastic kulmas tip attachments? Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:11:50 GMT E & D http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/150 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/150 There are at least 2 (maybe even 3 or 4) different tikunim with "Vavey haAmudim". The difference is in the # of amudim: I have 245 and 248. I think there is Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:22:32 GMT Benjamin Cohen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/149 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/149 Today the standard tikun is Vavey haAmudim, are there any other tikunim available? What are the name of those tikunim? Thank You Levlaranochi ... TV dinner Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:50:51 GMT sofernewbee http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/148 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/148 ... Hi, If it is not too much trouble could you cite exactly the four differences (letter and pasuk) so I can look them up myself. the only one I am aware of Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:27:49 GMT Y. Askotzky (STAM) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/147 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/147 Do Chassidim use the Ashkenaz or Sephard tikkun? I am aware of 4 differences. kol tuv, Yerachmiel Wed, 03 May 2006 19:49:59 GMT shmuligz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/145 B"H hello , im a aspiring sofer . im currently learning it in yeshiva , ive already done the shulchan aruch and the mishna berurah (im currently reviewing it Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:36:06 GMT Y. Askotzky http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/141 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/141 Do any of you have any first hand knowledge of whether the ball bearing system some use to enable the Torah within a Sephardic Torah case to be more easily Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:51:28 GMT Mordechai Pinchas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/140 I have a turner who does work for me occasionally here in the UK. He is about to do some atsey chayim for me and doesn't like to take too much on, but I could Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:37:37 GMT Benjamin Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/139 Would anyone in the group happen to know a maker of good quality wooden atzei chaim. I'm looking for a set for a small (27.5 cm) sefer torah. Todah rabah Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:28:21 GMT Mordechai Pinchas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/138 Dear Benjamin, thanks for your advice. I don't know how the creases were formed, but I suspect that the klaf must have got damp at some point. Certainly when Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:58:23 GMT Benjamin Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soferstam/message/137 I'm sorry to hear about the theft of the Torah from Ashkelon, may I suggest also keeping an eye on ebay. Sifrei Torah (new and used) are constantly appearing