Timeline for are double rosh tefillin knots kosher?
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| Feb 15 at 5:31 | comment | added | Micha Berger | @GershomMenachem: Actually, a sheild made with 6 struts in two interlocking deltas was quite strong, since each delta was a triiangle, which is a structurally rigid shape. (A triangle of given length sides will force particular angles on the corners. No wobbling.) Bar Kokhva's soldiers used circular sheilds with this interlocking deltas / dalet design. They called it Magein DaviD. More likely than a square of two triangles. | |
| Feb 14 at 2:37 | comment | added | Gershom Menachem | @MichaBerger The whole argument is about the daltet being seen from inside and/ or also from outside. Actually the dalet in ketav ivri has a whole in the center like a triangle before it goes down, if you out 2 dalets then you end up with like a square triangle with two lines going down representing the exiting retzuos, that actually would fit better the Sanz kesher. | |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:02 | comment | added | Micha Berger | As opposed to the script of the text itself on parchment inside the tefillin, which is actually given less prestigious heritage than a law decided by G-d at Sinai without any need for interpretation by a court of humans. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 19:48 | comment | added | kouty | @MichaBerger interesting question | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 19:25 | comment | added | Micha Berger | If the Torah was given in Ivri script, and only switched over to Ashuri script in Ezra's day, would that mean that Moshe was given in Sinai a law to make the knot as a triangle? Or conversely: Do the customs about the knot reflect taking positions about which script the Torah was given to Moshe in? | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 14:32 | history | answered | kouty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |