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Menachot
29a:
Letters Must Be Whole
Ashian b. Nidbak said in the name of Rab Judah: If the inner [leg]
of the letter He was perforated, it is still valid;
if the [right] leg was perforated it is invalid.
R. Zera said: This was explained to me by R. Huna — and R. Jacob said:
This too was explained to me by Rab Judah — as follows:
If the inner [leg] of the He was perforated, it is still valid;
if the [right] leg was perforated and there still remained thereof
the size of a small letter, it is valid; otherwise it is invalid.
It once happened to Agra, the father-in-law of R. Abba, that the [right]
leg of the letter He in the word “ha'am” [this word does not appear in
the Mezuzah text, but is relevant to the present discussion] had been severed by a perforation;
whereupon he came to R. Abba who ruled that if there still
remained thereof the size of a small letter it is valid, otherwise it is invalid.
It once happened to Rami b. Tamre, also known as Rami b. Dikule,
that the leg of the letter vav in the word “wa-yaharog” had been
severed by a perforation; whereupon he came to R. Zera who said:
Go, fetch a child that is neither too clever nor too foolish; if
he is able to read the word as “wa-yaharog”, it is valid;
otherwise, the word is “yaharog” and it is invalid.
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