Scrolls on Parchment
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Question
Hello, I would like to direct the question to the rabbi, as I have made a donation to the site. We have scrolls on parchment with many errors, and we already have a ruling from a rabbi that they can be read in public with a blessing. My question is, is there any significance or preference to correct them when it involves financial expenditure, and how important is it? Also, is it permissible to place these scrolls in the Ark, which is a safe, together with the Torah scrolls, since making an additional safe for the scrolls involves significant expense?
Answer
Hello
1. Since they are only valid post facto (see Siman Traz), they should ideally be corrected, especially since it is forbidden to keep a book that has not been proofread. (Yoreh De'ah, Rat)
2. It is forbidden unless this has been the practice from the beginning of using the Ark to place other books there, such as the Prophets (see Mishnah Berurah, Siman Kaf Dalet, Siman Kaf Lamed Aleph)
Source
Orach Chaim, Siman Traz, Yoreh De'ah, Siman Rat.
Mishnah Berurah, Siman Kaf Dalet, Siman Kaf Lamed Aleph