<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Revisiting a topic from 13-1/2 years ago because AhS Yomi got to something<br>
relevant.<br>
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See <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=S#SILK%20SCREEN%20TORAH%20SCROLLS:SCROLLS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/<wbr>getindex.cgi?section=S#SILK%20<wbr>SCREEN%20TORAH%20SCROLLS:SCROL<wbr>LS</a><br>
or <<a href="http://j.mp/2bnPOgd" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://j.mp/2bnPOgd</a>> and subsequent subjects.<br>
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So, here's the "new" data point -- AhS YD 271:39 <<a href="http://j.mp2aQI4EP" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://j.mp2aQI4EP</a>>.<br>
RYME opens the se'if citing the Taz, MA, and Bash that printing is just<br>
like kesivah, and Chavos Ya'ir, Benei Yonah and Rashdam against.<br>
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His own position is that the old style printing press, which was a real<br>
press (mental image: Benjamin Franklin's apprentice screwing down a<br>
block onto the page) is "kekeisah mamash", as long as the ink is kosher.<br>
However, nowadays, "with a machine that rolls the paper on the letters,<br>
and the machine runs on its own without a person moving it, this is<br>
certainly not kesivah."<br>
<br>
Leshitaso, I don't see why silk screening by hand, lesheim qedushas<br>
sefer Torah, would be a problem.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>After looking inside, I'm not so sure. 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. He doesn't explicitly say that all three stages are 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.</div></div></div></div>