Only unlined paper for a kvittel?

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    I was recently asked by someone for a piece of unlined paper for

    a kvittel that they were sending to a certain rebbe. I asked them

    about the reason, but they weren’t able to give one, although they

    did tell me that when a gabbai gives you a piece of paper to write

    your kvittel on, it is always unlined. Can anyone here explain this?

    #1210763
    Lightbrite
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    Because only Hashem rules

    #1210764
    Joseph
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    They didn’t have lined paper (or parchment) in the times of the Baal Shem Tov.

    #1210765
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Maybe unlined paper is cheaper.

    #1210766
    Lightbrite
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    Maybe the lines weren’t necessary because the Rebbe reads between the lines anyway.

    #1210767
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    LB- lol.

    #1346598
    Lubavitcher
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    You want the brochois to flow – so to say the lines can be a blockage for the brochois to pass therefore we use unlined paper so the brochois can flow

    #1346604
    Gadolhadorah
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    While its a fun idea for a thread, not every minhag has any rational basis….how many times do we here that we do it because, “thats the way it was done in the alte heim”…maybe 200 hundred years from now people will say simply that the inyan for some practice is because thats the way it the experts in the YWN CR said it should be done

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