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Mordechai Pinchas

Mordechai Pinchas

Registered: 14 September 2008
Mordechai Pinchas/Marc Michaels
If a person is defined by his occupation then I'm as much a split personality as Clark Kent and Superman, but don't have a curl in the middle of my forehead. By day a mild-mannered civil servant working as Director of Direct and Relationship for the COI (Central Office of Information) trying to persuade the great British public to do what is right and improve the quality of their lives. - www.coi.gov.uk. For my Clark Kent role, oddly I don't wear glasses. By night (and Sundays) however, a very different story. Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a Jew, no it's Soferman. Writing and repairing STaM for shuls in the UK and Europe. Want to know more about that? Visit my website at www.sofer.co.uk for this role, completely the opposite to Superman, I do sometimes wear glasses - all the close work and my lenses go swimming.

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Vaya'al correction

By Mordechai Pinchas, September 21, 2008
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Correction to word in the last amud of a Sefer Torah

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Correcting a 'correction'

By Mordechai Pinchas, September 21, 2008

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 photos in the gallery)and then the regel (leg) drawn curvey and with an okets (thorn). Someone had corrected a letter that was correct!

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Hackney Limmud

By Mordechai Pinchas, September 14, 2008

Just gave a sofrut session at Hackney Limmud.

Some very nice people - all jolly interested in the show and tell and all had a go at doing some calligraphy. One little boy was so cute, so I made him pretend to be the Oak Tree for the gallwasp to sting to make gallnuts that d'yo (ink) is made from.

Hope they all had a good time.

 

 

 

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Care of Your Torah - A Guide

By Mordechai Pinchas, September 14, 2008
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Book covers from Kulmus Publishing

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Care of Your Torah

By Mordechai Pinchas, September 14, 2008
The other day I was asked if I could extend a vav that someone had noticed had faded and looked like a yud as this was making the Torah pasul (invalid). .

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