Timeline for Handwritten Siddurim
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2015 at 17:57 | answer | added | Loewian | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | Noach MiFrankfurt | @loewian, I have never seen RaSa"G's manuscript, so I couldn't say. However, if you look in my first link, you'll see that the shemot are spelled out (albeit with shiluvim) and this handwritten siddur has the shem spelled out without shiluvim: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Besht_Siddur.jpg | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | Loewian | @NoachmiFrankfurt Is that assuming that printed shaimos do not have a halacha of shaimos? If so, that's news to me (and very convenient;)). You don't happen to have a source to that effect? Also, did R' Saadya Gaon write the names of G-d explicitly in his siddur? | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | Loewian | @DanF It might be the Tosefta quoted on Shabbos 115b that I'm remembering: "מכאן אמרו כותבי ברכות כשורפי תורה" he.wikisource.org/wiki/… (mentioned in the OP's second link) | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 14:28 | comment | added | Loewian | @DanF I'm afraid I don't remember the daf off hand - I think it's a gemara in Shabbos, possibly in a broader sugya about amulets. | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 19:29 | comment | added | Noach MiFrankfurt | @loewian, if you look at the second link, then you'd notice that the prohibition became moot when siddurim replaced rote-learning of the tefillah. How else did R' Sa'adia Gaon write his siddur? | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | Noach MiFrankfurt | @DanF, #5 is a follow-up to #4, if 4 is not limited to soferim, then 5 is irrelevant. For #3, I'm contrasting paper and klaf | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 18:11 | comment | added | DanF | @loewian - "I believe the gemara curses those who write siddurim" - can you source this? I haven't heard this, before. Regarding #5 - how do you know that a siddur may only be written by a sofer? My history is not great, but when was paper (as we know it today, not papyrus) invented? | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Loewian | I believe the gemara curses those who write siddurim, though I think the same would be true of publishers as well (I think because of the shaimos issues). | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 15:50 | history | asked | Noach MiFrankfurt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
