Table of contents
Vocabulary words
This word list isn’t part of the sefer. It’s words which are so hard to translate into reasonable English that they’re left untranslated.
The sefer Keset ha-Sofer
- 1. Who may write & deal in STa”M
- 2. The skin upon which one writes
- 3. Ink, lines, quill, writing with one’s right hand
- 4. Writing lishmah, and other things about writing; not inverting sheets
- 5. The forms of the letters and their ornamentation
- 6. Determining form using a child
- 7. Ketivah tamah, spacing between letters and words
- 8. Hak tokhot
- 9. Tefillin & mezuzah; writing in sequence
- 10. Kedushat ha-Shem & writing it
- 11. The prohibition on mehikat ha-Shem
- 12. If a Name was written wrong or damaged, how one fixes it
- 13. Measurements relating to a sefer Torah – columns & lines
- 14. Measurements relating to a sefer Torah – the blank spaces
- 15. Petuha, setuma, and the inverted nuns
- 16. The layout of the songs, and other issues
- 17. Sewing a sefer Torah
- 18. If a sheet tore
- 19. Not leaving a sefer lying around without fixing it and related matters
- 20. Writing tefillin
- 21. Making the housings
- 22. Putting the parshiyot inside the tefillin and sewing the housings
- 23. The straps
- 24. Checking tefillin, and what if the tefillin or the straps were damaged
- 25. Not lowering from higher sanctity to lesser
- 26. Rabeinu Tam tefillin
- 27. Writing mezuzot
- 28. Writing and sewing Megillat Esther
This translation copyright 2006 Jen Taylor Friedman