http://www.thejc.com/users/mordechai-pinchas
is my new page on the JC.com.
Not as good as the blogspot as you can't put photos into the blog entry.
How odd.
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Correcting a 'correction'...
On Friday a Rabbi popped round with his Sefer Torah with one of the oddest errors I've come across. In the very last amud the word Vaya'al (vav yud ayin lamed) read Yaya'al (yud, yud ayim lamed). Nothing odd about that I hear you cry - after all the bottoms of vavs can often wear away and so resemble a yud. Nope. This vav had been scraped away deliberately - you could see the marks on the parchment (see below) and then the regel (leg) drawn curvey and with an okets (thorn). Someone had corrected a letter that was correct! So I corrected it back to what it was supposed to be!
Friday, 12 September 2008
Met Topol... yay.
When I was little my great auntie Reggie from Poland would take me to the theatre in London to see Fiddler on the Roof and Topol was in in most of the time ... a major influence on my Yiddishkeit and my love of Jewish artefacts and Hebrew letters and old stories. So last night I finally met him after a play he was in. How cool was that? Brilliant. Yay. Spoke to him for quite a while as we walked through Regent's Park together. Thank heaven for cameras in mobile phones.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Launch of Kulmus Publishing...
How exciting is that. Find out more on Facebook page below.
4 books for sale:
Care of Your Torah
Thoroughly Modern Moses
The East London Synagogue - Outpost of Another World
Tikkun Megillat Hashoah
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Victoria-British-Columbia-Canada/Kulmus-Publishing/24193042903
Sunday, 3 August 2008
K'milah Achat (as one word)
Just spent two hours fixing one very bad amud... however, a perfect example of a k'milah achat - where two words are written too close together and therefore look like one word. That means the scroll was never kosher in the first place. Actually there were two examples in this amud. The pics shows the before during and after...1. asher and tsivanu - way too close together.
2. scraping out the tsadi.
3. a new slightly compressed tsadi making the requisite space.
Friday, 11 July 2008
My son Aryeh's Bar Mitsvah
Aryeh's bar mitsvah was simcha of the week in the JC this week. I am so proud of my son. So very proud because he was absolutely brilliant.
A very exciting thing - four generations called to read p'sukim from the Torah in chronological order. May never have happened before. A bar mitsvah, a sofer, a Rabbi and a Synagogue President.
Cool!
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