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THE DAFYOMI DISCUSSION LIST brought to you by Kollel Iyun Hadaf of Yerushalayim Rosh Kollel Rabbi Mordecai Kornfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE TO DISCUSS THE DAF WITH THE KOLLEL] ________________________________________________________________ Re: Megilah 017: The use of Braille >> 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 << Benjamin Rubin, Potomac MD, USA ----- >> Rabbi Feinhandler replied: I am in doubt if such a reading helps, since it is not a language as the others in the world. << ---------------------------------------------- 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. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in the body of the message: unsubscribe daf-discuss