[Avodah] Should Woman Go To Shul For Megilas Esther?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:58:30AM +0200, Danny Schoemann wrote:
: It's not such a big deal to write a Megila; a beginner Sofer can do it
: in 70 hours, if they are VERY slow... start now and you'll have one by
: next Purim. :-)

Can you use a stencil and silk-screen? >;-)

(BTW, if you want to see how it's done,
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvFED55xhv8>, starring R' Yosef Tesler.)

Argument-baiting aside... Does kesivah have a particular definition
regardless of the thing being written? If so, why does a mezuzah
require being written in order, and tefillin not require sirtut --
both differences from kesivas s"T?

I ask because Y-mi Gitten 2:3 11b says "'Vekasav' (Devarim 24:1) -- lo
chaqaq. 'Vekasav' -- lo matif. 'Kasav' -- lo hashofeikh. 'Kasav' -- lo
choqwiq. Is taniyei tani: Afilu choqeiq." The pasuq there is "vekhasav
lahh seifer kerisus..." Since we learn from that about sifrei Torah,
I presume we take it as defining writing a "seifer". Not necessarily an
"igeres" like the megillah...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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