About
Rabbi Shmuel Ahron Traube
Rabbi Traube has been certified by Vaad Mishmeres Stam since 1998, he learnt by Rabbi Avroham Markowitz.
Rabbi Traube is a proffessional, certified מגיה(checker) and sofer, he has worldwide recognition for his expertise in current and historical judaica and safrus items for many years and can recognize the handwriting many popular sofrim.
Rabbi Traube has been active and volunteered for Vaad Mishmeres Stam, where he gained much knowledge from Rabbi Granetstein and Rabbi Greenfield.
Due to the lack of unstructured presence of Kosher STAM with only the ability to certify items by checking on his own, Rabbi Traube has been working from within the Vaad Mishmeres STAM team to bring to fruition of certified STAM and he has been convincing rabbanim, sofrim and laymen of its importance.
Read more about the process under Vaad Mishmeres Stam.
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Rabbi Elimelech Traube
Rabbi Elimelech Traube, son of R' Shmuel Ahron is a new asset to our team. R' Elimelech gained his knowledge by learning in Eretz Yisroel under R' Moshe Uri Bloi and R' Reuven Mendelovich and is now a certified מגיה through Stamp. He is also a newly established sofer trained under the renowned R' Shmuel Meir Anshin from Israel.
R' Elimelech is a personable and attentive individual with lots of knowledge in the minute details in Hilchos STAM and is here to guide you on your queries.
R' Elimelech has been working alongside our two new certifications in Israel to make these dreams a reality.
About
Bais HaStam
30 years ago Rabbi Traube established Bais HaStam in Boro Park to provide quality safrus to customers who wanted STAM on that level although they really didn't know what to be aware of. Items are chosen with the premise that their price would match their dikduk haksivah and beauty. When there are new breakthroughs on different issues or concerns that come up in the Kosher STAM field, Bais HaStam customers are already taken care of and won't have the issues that is coming up in the news due to our selective process. Sofrim worldwide know that to have your items featured in Bais HaStam their products must be 100% in accordance with halachah.
about
Vaad Mishmeres Stam
Vaad Mishmeres Stam is a worldwide organization founded in the US that was run by Rav Shmuel Wosner and now by Rav Moshe Shaul Klein with participation of over 50 rabanim worldwide.
The new certification program - Tav Teken - is a program where we take already certified sofrim and have top rabanim, the greatest experts in STAM personaly review a sofer's work and only approving them for this exclusive hechsher if they are on a superbly high level of dikduk haksivah, this amounts to approximately 5% of sofrim being approved!! After this process it comes to the USA to be further checked and approved by the boro park local VAAD MISHMERES STAM
led by Rav Yisroel Shneebalg, and only then will it be sold in store and online.
about
OU - Stamp
Stamp is a non-profit organization with the mission of ensuring that Stam products in the market are written and checked to ensure their kashrus. Pre-Stamp items would get to the market after being written and checked and there were still some issues and noone would take accountability. Stamp has now made it their mission to have their own certified sofrim where their mezuzah is subject to a multi stage, in house checking process by Stamp certified magihim. This creates an almost fool proof space for Stam products to have issues down the line.