Questions tagged [tractate-soferim]
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Why does Rashi change a claim of holiness made by his supposed source or switch sources midstream?
Follow up to this question about Bereishit 31:53.
A word from the "eloh" root is used 3 times in that pasuk. In the Artscroll, there is the word "chol" in the margins for 2 of them, which echoes ...
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The Kiddush Levana Jump
What type of 'dance' is an individual reciting Kiddush Levana supposed to do at this point?
כְּשֵׁם שֶׁאֲנִי רוֹקֵד כְּנֶגְדֵּךְ וְאֵינִי יָכוֹל לִנְגּוֹעַ בָּךְ,
כַּךְ לֹא יוּכְלוּ כָּל ...
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May one place letters under one another as long as there is a space between them?
Soferim 2:2 rules that one must put a line-width space between lines, a letter-width space between words, and a hair-width space between letters.
Certain letters leave much space beneath them, and ...
