Elihu Shanoon, sofer stam and member of the religious Kibbutz Saad in the
northern negev.
Elihu, originally trained as an engineer, is one of only 2 sofrei stam in
the Kibbutz movement. He authored a book on Hebrew proverbs and recently
published a siddur with extensive comments on nusach.
Elihu is very active on a hebrew online forum dealing with layening,
dikduk, nusach. Www.hagigim.com
Elihu is an acquaintance of mine.
This looks like his home page, interests in safrut stam and nusach...
http://www1.saad.org.il/elihu/
I believe the link should be www1.saad.org.il/elihu/vavei.doc
Who is the author?
From: "Dov Bloom" <dovbbb@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2017 07:56
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] exception to vavei haamudim
To: "Nehemiah Klein" <kleinnd@gmail.com>
Cc:Vavei haamudim is only a minhag. I know of sofrim who dont follow it,
where i live we have sfarim without it.
The mechaber and Ramah both do not require it or recommend against it,
likewise the 'Keset Sofer'.
See www1.saad.org.il/elihu/vavei for an article marshalling the sources.
In this morning's kriya the word "shnei" as in "shnei haseirim" appears
on the top of an amud, it's not one of the six that make up "bekah Shmo", I
always thought every amud begins with a vav except for "bekah Shmo".
Anyone have any sources for this, or explanations?