Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Menachot 51:20

תא שמע וחכמים אומרים קומץ טעון כלי שרת כיצד קומצו מכלי שרת ומקדשו בכלי שרת ומעלו ומקטירו בכלי שרת ר' שמעון אומר כיון שקמצו מכלי שרת מעלו ומקטירו שלא בכלי שרת ודיו

Since he took the handful from a vessel of ministry he may offer it up and burn it even in his girdle and even in a potsherd. R'Nahman B'Isaac said, All agree that the handful must be sanctified.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it must be put into a vessel of ministry. All that R. Simeon permits is to take out the handful after it had been sanctified in a vessel of ministry and offer it with the hand upon the altar.');"><sup>21</sup></span>

Sefer HaChinukh

And he should be careful (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Tefillin, Mezuzah and the Torah Scroll 7:8-9) about the big letters and the small letters, the dotted letters and the letters the form of which is unusual, such as the bent [letter] peh, and the twisted letters — like the scribes copied, one man from another. And he should be careful with the crowns and in their numbers — there is a letter that has one crown upon it and there is [another] letter that has seven upon it. And all of the crowns are like the form of a [letter] zayin, [that] are as thin as a strand of hair. And all of these things are only said for an ideal [fulfillment of the] commandment. And [so] if he diverged [erred] in this refinement or was not exacting with the crowns, but he wrote all the letters as fits them; or if he made the lines closer or further or lengthened them or shortened them — since he did not have one letter cling to [another] letter and he did not miss or add or destroy the form of [a single] letter, and he did not make a change in the open paragraphs (petuchot) or in the closed paragraphs (setumot), behold this is a fit Torah scroll. [These] and the rest of the details of the commandment are elucidated in Tractate Menachot [in] the third chapter, and in the first chapter of Bava Batra and in Tractate Shabbat.
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