{"id":71,"date":"2009-12-24T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:39:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:39:41","slug":"proofreading-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/proofreading-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/shin3.jpg\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"Sephardi letter shin\"><br \/>Sephardi shin<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/shin2.jpg\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"Ashkenazi letter shin\"><br \/>Ashkenazi shin<\/div>\n<p>Shin, for Ashkenazim, has to have a pointy bottom. But Sephardim don&#8217;t necessarily agree with that, and many Sephardi styles give shin a rounded or flat bottom. Now, most Ashkenazim don&#8217;t think that this is a deal-breaker; you can still recognise the letter as shin, after all, but a few Ashkenazim do think it&#8217;s very much a deal-breaker. They may even avoid Torah readings from a Sephardi-style Torah on this basis. Some Sephardi scribes add a nominal point to their shins, as here, for compatability:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/shin1.jpg\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"Sephardi letter shin\"><\/div>\n<p>This is a formalised example of how minor variation in letter forms can affect how kosher it is &#8211; formalised because the variation is accepted as valid by different branches of the tradition. Accidental variation is more likely for the sort of proofreading I&#8217;m doing. A more common example, of ambiguity affecting kashrut, follows shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sephardi shin Ashkenazi shin Shin, for Ashkenazim, has to have a pointy bottom. But Sephardim don&#8217;t necessarily agree with that, and many Sephardi styles give shin a rounded or flat bottom. Now, most Ashkenazim don&#8217;t think that this is a deal-breaker; you can still recognise the letter as shin, after all, but a few Ashkenazim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proofreading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}