[Avodah] Care in reading a ketuba

[Zev Sero]

Yitzhak Grossman wrote:

> A friend of mine points me to a discussion of the five letter name you
> mention in the work Hagor Ha'Efod (Mazkeres Gittin 69:7), available
> from HebrewBooks.org:
> 
> http://hebrewbooks.org/8471 
> [p. 42 of the PDF]

Thank you.  That's a fascinating teshuvah, rich with cross-cultural
information, both about the differences between communities, and about
how aware various communities were of the existence of these differences.

1. Can Ashkenazim and Sefardim use each others' STaM?
2. Even though both STaM and gittin must be written properly, the reasons
are completely different, and that difference may lead to halachic
differences.
3. Different ways the sound "J" was written in Hebrew: In Rome it was
written gimel yud, while in Salonica it was written as a gimel with an
umlaut over it.
4. How many teshuvot quote Graetz?

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