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But if there are extraneous letters, we have no problem with it, and one may erase them. This is the first halakha that Rav stated, which is refuted in a baraita.
The other is that which Rav says: One who writes a Torah scroll and comes to finish writing it may finish writing it anywhere in the column, and this is the halakha even with regard to finishing it in the middle of the column. The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: One who writes a Torah sc
The Talmud asks: But doesn’t Rav say his statement with regard to a Torah scroll? The Talmud answers: He was referring to one of the 5 books that constitute a Torah scroll. Rav meant that when writing a Torah scroll, one may finish writing any of the first 4 books in the middle of a column. The Ta
The Talmud cites another opinion: The Rabbis say that one may finish writing a Torah scroll even in the middle of the line, but one may finish writing it at the end of the line as well. Rav Ashi says that one must finish writing the Torah scroll specifically in the middle of the line. And the halak
§ R' Yehoshua bar Abba says that Rav Giddel says that Rav says: With regard to the last 8 verses of the Torah (Deuteronomy 32:5–12), a single individual reads them in the synagogue, as that section may not be divided between two readers. The Talmud asks: In accordance with whose opinion is this sa