Supervision and training

Inspection and training OK

The Writers’ Institute is under the supervision of the global kashrut organization OK.

The global kosher organization OK, based in the United States, supervises thousands of products in complex production processes all over the world.

Otsar Hatam – Safed is the only hat manufacturing institute that is under the supervision and close supervision of the OK organization.

Each product is under a full, documented and computerized control process, starting from the stage of purchasing the card until receiving the final product certification.

List of compilations
The practices of the Institute of Writers

  • Immersion in the mikvah at the beginning of a writing day (Torah HaShelim for Hida chapter 18)
  • Writing slowly, without interruption in concentration and without listening to music or Torah words, etc.
  • Writing by a scribe who does not touch his beard at all (according to Rebbe Avi Hachira, as well as the custom of all Hassidim to be careful about this, and Rabbi Rashaltz Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu told me that there is a great virtue in this)​
  • Writing on fine hand-made negative parchment processed unconditionally (Kesat HaSofer 2,4; Kol Ya’akov)
  • Writing with a reed quill or a quill and not with an iron quill in any way (Torah HaShelim for Hida Chapter 18)
  • Uniform and very precise writing according to the Halacha and custom
  • Writing with completely black ink, not dark gray (commentary of Halacha C. 12 Sa. 3. 45 Yaktabam)
  • Strictness in “not as an orderly with half a letter” (Evni Nizar Och Siman 9:10)
  • Nice labeling by kosher ink for Sattam (Sho’a 3. 12. 4. Rama’a).
  • Labeling according to tinned matchsticks (useful tags) in the handwriting of the late Hari Zal (provided in Column B.C.L.V.)
  • Adhering to the severity of the rabbinic law when gluing letters (Commentary of Halacha C. 12, Section 18, 45, and if)
  • Labeling as an usher while writing (in Beit Yosef and Bari script)
  • Option to write the entire passage in sequence and in a spoken manner
  • Possibility of additional and rare compilations (writing on parchment treated with ink and oil smoke ink).

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