<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Why isnt every writing (eg on parchment) tzovea?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A very intriguing question!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rav Dovid Ribiat ("The 39 Melachos") discusses this question on page 739-740. It's not a short answer, but if I understand it correctly, one can accomplish kesiva without tzovea if there is no surface which becomes colored in the process. The examples he gives are cutting letters out of a sheet of paper, or molding letters from a piece of clay.>></span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Several other people came up with other unusual types of writing that is not tzovea</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The implication is that normal writing is indeed also tzovea</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Next Question:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kesiva requires 2 letters near each other.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">If one writes (on paper/parchment) only one letter why is one then not chayav for tzovea anyway?<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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