[Avodah] silk-screened sifrei torah (STAM) and megillot

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:46:41PM +0300, Simon Montagu wrote:
:                                        RYME lists three characteristics of
: old-fashioned printing which make it like ketiva mamash: the letters are
: set in the page; all the letters of the page are spread with ink; and then
: the paper is pressed on the page and the ink gets transferred to the page
: from the letters...

Are you sure his intent is to make those more like kesivah? He is simply
describing what printing is. After all, in kesivah with a quill or reed
you don't have pre-set letters all being transferred to the kelaf at once.

: necessary for it to be considered ketiva, but it seems to be implied that
: every letter needs to be processed individually with kavvana likdusha,
: which IIUC is not the case at any stage of silk screen printing.

With silk screen, the person is rolling out the letters in order.

With printing, the whole amud is made at once.

Your problem would appear to apply MORE to printing than silk-screening.

Even after reading your post, silk-screening seems to be a lo kol shekein
to someone who would allow a hand-printed seifer Torah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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