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If we have full copies of the Torah in an unchanged form (Dead Sea Scrolls), why don’t we revert our Torah scrolls back?
Halakhah does not assume that anything older is necessarily more precise despite the principle yeridat hadorot (ירידת הדורות), and this is scientifically not reasonable either. Assume you write an ...
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If we have full copies of the Torah in an unchanged form (Dead Sea Scrolls), why don’t we revert our Torah scrolls back?
There's been extensive scholarship on this, especially by Professor Schiffman. The "Qumranites" -- the group to whom these scrolls belonged -- did not follow the mainstream "Pharisee&...
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If we have full copies of the Torah in an unchanged form (Dead Sea Scrolls), why don’t we revert our Torah scrolls back?
I appreciate where you're coming from but unfortunately your premise is faulty for a few reasons.
I don't believe we have found entire complete Torah scrolls. I believe we have found various ...
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Why is the Taz's position on tefillin parsha spacing controversial?
The Taz understands the Rambam you quoted to be saying the space at the end of the line and the beginning of the line combine into one gap.
The other understanding of the Rambam (which for various ...
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Is one permitted to change one of Hashem’s names to another in writing?
The Minchas Chinuch (437) that erasing some letters of a Divine Name is forbidden even if the remainder constitutes a different Divine Name.
ומבואר בר"מ דהמוחק אות אחת משמות אלו לוקין. ופשוט ל&...
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Is one permitted to change one of Hashem’s names to another in writing?
Although I don’t have an exact source for this question, I found the reverse case that is discussed and this case can be inferred from that.
If someone wrote Elokim and wants to erase part of it to ...
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