Friday, May 24, 2013
Creative writing
I don't really have much time to post, but I finished the Eicha I was writing and am now in the proofreading stage. Safrut usually isn't associated with creativity. You basically copy letter for letter and if you try to play games on your own the work becomes worthless. Last week I found a repeated word in the first column and that's where the creativity came in.
Ignore the x in the margin. That was a different error already fixed. This picture will also be used for a later post on chok Tochos. On the right side towards the middle of the picture you will see the word אני and a smudge. The words אלה אני were written there before though I don't have pictures of the rest of the process. I had to erase everything, and then rewrite אני leaving an unsightly and almost certainly passul space. The solution: See that ב right after אני? Well...
Still unsightly, now kosher. So, now you know. Safrut does involve creative writing.
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That was indeed creative, although I wonder how far one can go in elongating the letter before it is so distorted that it is no longer the letter. Are there specific rules for this?
ReplyDeleteThere are some letters that cannot be stretched because they begin to look like other letters. To my knowledge the only limit on stretching letters that can be stretched is "that the eye should be able to scan the whole letter at once" and for that you have to go back to RaMBaM and it applies to the whole line so practically you don't run into that issue.
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