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

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:41:13PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> : Surely what matters is the machshava not of the ancient scribe who
> : wrote the original scroll, but of the magazine publisher who reproduced
> : it.
> 
> Actually, it should be of the manual laborer who pushed the button. No?

Probably.  Or not even him; the whole question of the kedusha of printed
Sheimos is complicated, precisely because of this issue.

 
> : See also Kuntres Ba'er Bisdei, by R Chaim Chizkiyah Medini, defending
> : the title of his S'dei Chemed.
> 
> Many of us can't. Why not summarize?

Essentially that what makes a Name holy is the intent of the writer,
and so the same three letters are holy if the writer intended them
as a Name, but completely mundane if he intended them to mean "Fields of".

 
> Is it published with the SC?

I believe so.


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