Category Archives: safrut

Back to School – safrut-learning

October 14, 2010 – 11:36

Now all the holidays are safely over (I’M LOOKING AT YOU, COLUMBUS DAY), it’s time to get down to the semester in earnest. What about making this the year you get round to learning safrut? Especially if you’re in NYC and you want to learn it with me, because I’m thinking about taking a few […]

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Little Tet, Big Tet; Eicha and Kohelet

October 13, 2010 – 17:21

In Little Letters in Eicha, parts one and two, I talked about lamed, ayin, and tet. The little lamed was serving as a reminder-flag, telling you to recall other, relevant, words beginning with lamed. The little ayin had to do with numerical symbolism. The little tet had numerical symbolism and reminder-flagging, all of it connected […]

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Little Letters in Eicha, part 2

September 17, 2010 – 14:27

Little Letters in Eicha, part 1 3:36 לעות אדם בריבו אדני לא ראה To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. Tzvi Ron in Sefer Katan u-Gadol again (trans. G. Wasserman): “The small ‘ayin in the word לעות (verse 3:36) is explained as a reference to the numerical value of the letter, […]

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Little Letters in Eicha, part 1

September 16, 2010 – 13:40

I’ve not posted much on the Big and Little Letters in Torah, have I? And now I’m posting on the Little Letters in Eicha – well, I’m between Torahs at the moment, and indulging in a spate of megillot, Eicha amongst them, which has something to do with it. 1:12 (Sofer Boyfriend wrote this one.) […]

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Eicha pictures

September 15, 2010 – 20:11

Tisha b’Av seems a long time ago, now that Yom Kippur is on us, but I am finally posting those pictures of Megillat Eicha I promised you all those weeks ago. First – Eicha scroll, bodaciously swathed in black. Next – reading from the scroll, mostly backlit by candlelight. The candles were very atmospheric, but […]

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