Acquiring and Maintaining Stam: Difference between revisions
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# The writing must be written on scored straight lines called ''sirtut'' (heb. שרטוט; trans. scratched) that are pressed into the klaf.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 288:8 writes that a mezuzah without scoring, sirtut, is invalid.</ref> | # The writing must be written on scored straight lines called ''sirtut'' (heb. שרטוט; trans. scratched) that are pressed into the klaf.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 288:8 writes that a mezuzah without scoring, sirtut, is invalid.</ref> | ||
# The parchment although rolled up tightly should be able to be opened. If two parts of the parchment are stuck together so that unsticking it will invalidate a letter, it is invalid.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 6:10</ref> | # The parchment although rolled up tightly should be able to be opened. If two parts of the parchment are stuck together so that unsticking it will invalidate a letter, it is invalid.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 6:10</ref> | ||
# There are two main schools of how the writing for mezuzot should be written, the Sephardi style and the Ashkenazic style. Everyone should get a mezuzah according to their minhag, though after the fact most poskim hold both are kosher for everyone.<ref>Agur Bohalecha 6:13</ref> | |||
# The end of the lines should be justified. If they end at different points it is possible that it is invalid.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 288:9</ref> | |||
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