[Avodah] Alef-Lamed in a gett
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Thu Jun 17 21:20:50 PDT 2021
On 17/6/21 6:21 pm, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> Scene on Facebook, but in a group unlikely to generate an Orthodox answer...
>
> Say someone named Shmuel generally writes his name shin-mem-vav-aleflamed,
> where the last is that ligature you'll find in some older siddurim.
>
> Would that spelling have to appear in any gett he gives?
I don't think how a person writes his name is relevant. Shemu'el has a
fixed spelling, and if he misspells it that's his problem. Kol shekein
in the case of the ligature, which isn't even a spelling, it's just a
shorthand.
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Zev Sero Wishing everyone a healthy summer
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