Quick Sukkot Notes
Sep. 29th, 2007 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuWeather couldn't have been nicer. A little overnight rain but mealtimes were gorgeous. First time I've ever wished for a/c in the sukkah, though. Or maybe just an evaporative cooler. Our lunch guests have all been delightful.
Tani: "God isn't always invisible. Sometimes a person can be mean, and then they realize they're being mean and they change what kind of person they're going to become, and that's kind of a way that God can be sort of visible." I love this kid.
Both kids really got into the whole "inside is outside and outside is inside" thing. Alissa has been quite keen to correct us if we talk about "inside" meaning the house. And they love the lulav and etrog.
Today was the shul's "sukkah hop"; we were a stop for three groups (grades K, 1, and 2). Fun was had by all.
Read Torah this morning for the first time in a year. Made three correctable errors. The sefer Torah they took out was not the one I rolled yesterday to practice from, which is beautifully and clearly written on high-quality klapim. This one had many lines where several letters were stretched almost beyond recognition to justify the text. I find such a scroll very frustrating to use.
I found myself wondering (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hatam_soferet can probably answer this one) --- when I was a kid, we all used the tikkun from the Ktav publishing house, and it seemed for a while that sofrim were using its line breaks and column breaks as a standard. (I assume because it meant they could rely on the various places that have to fall at the top of a column, for exapmle, being in the right spot.) It made it easy to learn one's kriyah because one subconsciously used the word's placement on the column as a mnemonic. (That's one of the things that I know tripped me up this morning; although that sefer was quite old.) So what I'm wondering is if it is the case that sofrim (and sofrot) use a tikkun as a master, and if so, if it's the Ktav, the red one whose name I forget, the new Simanim, or another?
Tani: "God isn't always invisible. Sometimes a person can be mean, and then they realize they're being mean and they change what kind of person they're going to become, and that's kind of a way that God can be sort of visible." I love this kid.
Both kids really got into the whole "inside is outside and outside is inside" thing. Alissa has been quite keen to correct us if we talk about "inside" meaning the house. And they love the lulav and etrog.
Today was the shul's "sukkah hop"; we were a stop for three groups (grades K, 1, and 2). Fun was had by all.
Read Torah this morning for the first time in a year. Made three correctable errors. The sefer Torah they took out was not the one I rolled yesterday to practice from, which is beautifully and clearly written on high-quality klapim. This one had many lines where several letters were stretched almost beyond recognition to justify the text. I find such a scroll very frustrating to use.
I found myself wondering (
hatam_soferet can probably answer this one) --- when I was a kid, we all used the tikkun from the Ktav publishing house, and it seemed for a while that sofrim were using its line breaks and column breaks as a standard. (I assume because it meant they could rely on the various places that have to fall at the top of a column, for exapmle, being in the right spot.) It made it easy to learn one's kriyah because one subconsciously used the word's placement on the column as a mnemonic. (That's one of the things that I know tripped me up this morning; although that sefer was quite old.) So what I'm wondering is if it is the case that sofrim (and sofrot) use a tikkun as a master, and if so, if it's the Ktav, the red one whose name I forget, the new Simanim, or another?