A Purim Megillah Mistake: Can a Hei Be Turned Into a Daled by Erasing It?
This article originally appeared in the Jewish press and has been adapted for web A fascinating question arose in a local minyan on Purim that touches on two important areas of the halachos of STaM: חק תוכות (chok tochos), forming a letter through erasure, and מחיקת השם (mechikas Hashem), the prohibition against erasing Hashem’s Name. […]
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