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# Buying an already written sefer torah according to some opinions is a fulfillment of writing a sefer torah, while according to others it isn't a fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Rashi Menachot 30a s.v. Kechotef and Rambam (Sefer HaMitzvot Asin n. 18) imply that one does fulfill the mitzvah when one buys a sefer torah. However, the Rama YD 270:1 writes that one does not fulfill the mitzvah. Gra YD 270:4 agrees with Rashi that it is a fulfillment of the mitzvah.</ref> | # Buying an already written sefer torah according to some opinions is a fulfillment of writing a sefer torah, while according to others it isn't a fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Rashi Menachot 30a s.v. Kechotef and Rambam (Sefer HaMitzvot Asin n. 18) imply that one does fulfill the mitzvah when one buys a sefer torah. However, the Rama YD 270:1 writes that one does not fulfill the mitzvah. Gra YD 270:4 agrees with Rashi that it is a fulfillment of the mitzvah.</ref> | ||
# Some say that buying Sefarim is a fulfillment of this mitzvah. Additionally, one shouldn't sell a sefer except in order to learn torah or to get married.<ref>Rosh (Hilchot Sefer Torah n. 1) writes that nowadays that the sefer torah is left in shul for public torah reading, there is a mitzvah for every Jew to write a chumash, mishna, gemara, and commentaries in order to be able to learn Torah. This codified in Shulchan Aruch YD 270:2.</ref> | # Some say that buying Sefarim is a fulfillment of this mitzvah. Additionally, one shouldn't sell a sefer except in order to learn torah or to get married.<ref>Rosh (Hilchot Sefer Torah n. 1) writes that nowadays that the sefer torah is left in shul for public torah reading, there is a mitzvah for every Jew to write a chumash, mishna, gemara, and commentaries in order to be able to learn Torah. This codified in Shulchan Aruch YD 270:2.</ref> | ||
# Writing a Sefer Torah together with other people is a fulfillment of the mitzvah for everyone involved.<ref>Bet Efraim YD 63</ref> | # Writing a Sefer Torah together with other people is a fulfillment of the mitzvah for everyone involved.<ref>Bet Efraim YD 63 writes that if everyone in a group writes a letter of a sefer torah they fulfill the mitzvah but if they all jointly hire someone to write a sefer torah for them it is questionable if they fulfill the mitzvah. The Pitchei Teshuva YD 270:1 cites the Bet Efraim as well as the Pardes Dovid who says that the minhag is to write a sefer torah in partnership. Rav Moshe in Igrot Moshe YD 1:163 argues that it should fulfill the mitzvah.</ref> Others hold that one doesn't fulfill the mitzvah in partnership.<Ref>Aruch Hashulchan YD 270:11</ref> | ||
# If someone else writes a Sefer Torah on someone else's behalf without their knowledge the owner isn't fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Pitchei Teshuva YD 270:7 quotes the Mishnat Chachamim who says that if someone else writes a Sefer Torah they wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah since according to the Rama buying a Sefer Torah doesn't fulfill the mitzvah and according to Rashi it isn't the optimal mitzvah and there's no zachin for something which isn't a benefit.</ref> | # If someone else writes a Sefer Torah on someone else's behalf without their knowledge the owner isn't fulfillment of the mitzvah.<ref>Pitchei Teshuva YD 270:7 quotes the Mishnat Chachamim who says that if someone else writes a Sefer Torah they wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah since according to the Rama buying a Sefer Torah doesn't fulfill the mitzvah and according to Rashi it isn't the optimal mitzvah and there's no zachin for something which isn't a benefit.</ref> | ||
# If one can't write the Sefer Torah himself he should hire a sofer to write it for him.<Ref>Rambam Sefer Hamitzvot 18. Mishneh Halachot 16:101 argues that perhaps writing a Sefer Torah is a mitzvah upon a person's body and if a person can't write it hiring a scribe to write it for them is only a fulfillment of a partial mitzvah.</ref> | # If one can't write the Sefer Torah himself he should hire a sofer to write it for him.<Ref>Rambam Sefer Hamitzvot 18. Mishneh Halachot 16:101 argues that perhaps writing a Sefer Torah is a mitzvah upon a person's body and if a person can't write it hiring a scribe to write it for them is only a fulfillment of a partial mitzvah.</ref> | ||
