PEH199

24

A Torah scribe arrived at a place where the Jews possessed only a very flawed Torah scroll, and there was no way to obtain another one. He took on the task of correcting the errors, except for two non-adjacent columns that he had to rewrite entirely. However, he had parchment for only those two columns, and he was unsure whether he could fulfill the prescribed three-column requirement by making the columns unusually narrow. Physician David ben Jacob de Meza ruled that he should take the columns at a normal width because the three-column requirement is not strictly mandated. The verse for the dating is incorrectly cited. See references 95 and 742.

2

38

1744-01-04

1744-05-12

Athias, David Israel