FURTHER MEGIILLAT ESTHER STUDY

בס"ד

7 Cheshvan

Qeset Hasofer pereq [chapter] 28 se'if 7: What a few soferim are accustomed to do is that each time The Holy One is hinted at, to write that with the beginning letters of the words or the end letters of the words larger (roshei teyvot & sofei teyvot), but one should desist at the outset. In any case, you don't declare pasul this sort of writing or Megilot that are written like this & you can use it after the fact.

Se'if Chet: A Megilah that is written with vowel marks or the trope marks, or similarly if they wrote in it on the first page the blessing over the reading or liturgical poems, it isn't invalid because of this. But you should never write these things in it. & if the shaliach tzibur isn't familiar with the chanting & there isn't anyone there to help him read it then it's even permitted to write the trope marks in after the fact, or it could be read without chanting.

Se'if Tet: A Megilah that was written with the left hand [if the scribe is right-handed], or if a woman wrote it or if a minor [child under the age of 13] wrote it, some say that it's pasul & some say it's kosher.

Lishkat HaSofer note 7 in Se'if Tet: "ve-yesh makshirim" - "some say it's kosher". In the Birkey Yosef it's written that one should be in doubt that if a woman that wrote a Megilah, it may not be kosher. & he wrote in order to admonish/reprove what Rambam wrote, that the hide used for a Megilah doesn't need to be processed lishma [for the sake of Heaven], evidence that not every matter is the Megilah compared to/similar to a Sefer Torah.