[Mesorah] YKVK in Ashuris

[Gershon Dubin]

A sofer friend of mine explained to me many years ago that this is called
"pesia lebar" (step out) and is rooted in kabala.

Gershon
gershon.dubin at juno.com
 
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:15 -0600 (CST) Michael Hamm
<msh210 at math.wustl.edu> writes:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I noticed that the sefer Tora in use in a shul around here has 
> something
> that struck me as very odd.  Everytime the name YKVK appears, the 
> first
> he is normal -- it looks like a dalet with an almost-yod beneath -- 
> but
> the second he looks like a resh with just a slightly-thick vertical 
> line
> beneath.  (Both he's have two tagin -- I mean, each of the two he's 
> in
> each name has two tagin -- one on the right and one on the left.)  
> Is this
> usual?  Is it l'chat'chila?
> 
> Michael Hamm
> AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis
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