[Avodah] The Two Tablets

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:00:03AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: Why would we make that assumption?  Surely it's more straightforward
: to assume the writing was the same size throughout...

I didn't find my post, but I found R' David Lapin (who I have worked
with, so he was likely my source the first time around) cites the Mabit.
I found it in Beis E-lokim Shaar haYesodos ch. 12. He assumes "shelo
yesha'er maqom panui". See the text at
<http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14113&st=&pgnum=107>.

: of the question that came up recently on another list, about the minhag
: some have of writing the ten sons of Haman on a page of their own.
: If the rest of that megillah has more than 11 lines per page, then
: the sofer must either use super-large letters or leave lots of space.
: The problem with using large letters is that we have a mesorah of which
: letters should be big or small, and these pesukim are meant to be neither.)

That came up here too, vol 12n117 onward.

But there is no mesorah about how to carve replacement luchos. Perhaps
they were all large on the luchos, even though we don't do that in the
seifer Torah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger             Never must we think that the Jewish element
micha at aishdas.org        in us could exist without the human element
http://www.aishdas.org   or vice versa.
Fax: (270) 514-1507                     - Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch