{"id":819,"date":"2011-01-20T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-01-17T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:27:54","slug":"disaster-in-the-torah-repair-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/disaster-in-the-torah-repair-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster in the Torah repair mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tears in Torahs are scary, people. I know. You see a big tear, you want to STICK IT BACK TOGETHER REALLY HARD so it WON&#8217;T TEAR ANY MORE. Nobody could be <i>calm<\/i> about finding this in their Torah, for instance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tear1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tear1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"tear1\" title=\"tear1\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tear1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tear1-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tear1.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for the love of all things holy, don&#8217;t whip out the duck tape and do this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_46121.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_46121-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4612\" title=\"IMG_4612\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_46121-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_46121-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_46121.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amount of tape used is directly proportional to the amount of trauma someone&#8217;s trying to fix. But think about it for a second &#8211; it&#8217;s torn already. Tape isn&#8217;t going to fix it. You&#8217;re only trying to make yourself feel better with all that duck tape. <\/p>\n<p>Go have a cup of tea instead. When you&#8217;ve calmed down, come back. The job of the tape is not to fix the sefer or to assuage your guilt at having let it get torn; tape is to stop things getting any worse until it can be fixed properly with parchment. Duck tape is for pipes and trucks. A Torah is neither. For a Torah we use artists&#8217; tape to stop something getting worse, while we&#8217;re working on getting it fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tears in Torahs are scary, people. I know. You see a big tear, you want to STICK IT BACK TOGETHER REALLY HARD so it WON&#8217;T TEAR ANY MORE. Nobody could be calm about finding this in their Torah, for instance: But for the love of all things holy, don&#8217;t whip out the duck tape and [&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":[27],"tags":[33,39],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safrut","tag-torah-repair","tag-torah-scrolls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}