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Re: Megilah 017: The use of Braille
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Benjamin Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
Braiile is a language of communication for the blind. If a Megilla was
wriiten on Claf, with Dyo, all according to halacha. A megilla can have
nekudot and taamim written into it. Could braille letters be coded (the
parchment would have "bumps" embossed into the paqrchment) into the
megilla. Would this allow a blind person to read the megilla. He would not
be doing it by memory since his fingers would become his eyes
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Benjamin Rubin, Potomac MD, USA
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Rabbi Feinhandler replied:
I am in doubt if such a reading helps, since it is not a language as the
others in the world.
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J. Hollander comments:
Braille is not a language - it is a method of writing, like Ksav Ashuri, or
old Hebrew script - so the question should be whether a Megilla written in
another script is Kosher for reading the Megilla [which it is not, -DAF].
An example could be - besides other hebrew scripts, such as cursive -
writing a Megilla using, say, latin letters to represent the original words
of the Megilla; "Vayehi biymei A[h]ashvayrosh" etc. - would that be kosher
or not.
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