[Avodah] NASA, Dead-Sea Scrolls and G-D's holy name

[Zev Sero]

Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:

> I looked at the Trumas Hadeshen brought down by the Ramoh in YD 286:10
> because I thought it might be germane. It isn't really, but I did see that
> he seems to consider the Machshavah of the Koseiv as a prime factor in the
> Kedushah of a written Sheim. So why wouldn't it have Kedushah, if the Koseiv
> wrote it with that in mind? The fact that it's an ancient script doesn't
> make it a non-language.

Surely what matters is the machshava not of the ancient scribe who
wrote the original scroll, but of the magazine publisher who reproduced
it.


> P.S. The Terumas Hadeshen I referenced (which is an interesting read, BTW -
> dealing with the Kedushah of the Yud-Yud printed in Siddurim) is incorrectly
> cited in the old SAs. It is really Siman 171 in the Pesakim.

See also Kuntres Ba'er Bisdei, by R Chaim Chizkiyah Medini, defending the
title of his S'dei Chemed.


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