[Avodah] scraping/ finger....

[Harvey Benton]

wondering if vertical
versus horizontal
makesa difference 
(eg, minhagei one
versus the  other....)

 
hb
















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 From: Yosef Skolnick <yskolnick at gmail.com>
To: Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Avodah] scraping/ finger....
 

I don't think they touch the parchment....
Yosef Skolnick
516-690-SKOL
https://sites.google.com/site/yskolnick/




On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com> wrote:

i have been to  a sfardi shul and they 
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>assis t the reader. my question is; 
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>doesn't the pointer some-times 
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>scrape off the letters (or portions 
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>of them) and thus....
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> From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
>To: Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com>; The Avodah Torah Discussion Group <avodah at lists.aishdas.org> 
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:37 AM
>Subject: Re: [Avodah] why finger
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>On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:43:12PM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
>: why do we hold up a finger (pinky amnong some congregations
>: when the torah is lifted???
>: and if we are left handed do we switch hands?? 
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>The "zos" of "vezos haTorah" implies pointing. Some hold that pointing
>with an index finger is insulting, so, the pinky. OTOH, the Siddur Vilna
>says (quoting a few meqoros including Seifer haChassidim) one should
>bedavqa use the index finger, since that's the one called "etzba". As
>in anthropomorphications about HQBH doing things with His "Etzba" --
>including the writing of the luchos.
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>I'm lefty, and I do use my left hand, since that's how I point to things.
>But not because I thought about it, just because that's what I naturally
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>Tir'u baTov!
>-Micha
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