[Avodah] ksav ivri

[Micha Berger]

I once wrote a paper for school suggesting that it's a global symmetry
thing. MideOraisaia, one could use perfect Ashuris with tagin, or one
could use Ivri (probably not the Kenaani or Phoenician variants) --
as long as one is consistent.

Local symmetry: If I turn one snowflake out of a whole snowstorm 1/6 of
the way around, the scene is unchanged.

Global symmetry: Like the symmetry of magnets (barring some weird quantum
CPT symmetry effect I am not thinking of at the moment). If you switch
north and south on one magnet, it would make a difference to the global
picture. But if you switched all of them, all the same relationships
would hold.

Along the same lines and also discussed in my paper... If someone wrote
a megillah in Greek (as per the mishnah, Megillah 1:8, in the bavli on
9a), would there be halakhos for proper kesav?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

(The rebbe grading that paper was R' CO Chait, and from what I recall
of his personal interests, the choice of topic was probably aimed at
trying to interest RCOC and thus edge the grade up a little. <g>)

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