[Avodah] R' Akiva

Moshe Y. Gluck mgluck at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 19:43:20 PST 2008


> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:32:55AM -0500, Cantor Wolberg wrote:
> : It's brought down that there was a question how to spell Rabbi Akiva's
> : name. Do you spell it with an aleph at the end or with a hay at the end?
> In
> : the gemara it is spelled ayin, kuf, yud, veis, aleph....
R' MB: 
> In the Y-mi the spelling is (usually? always?) with a hei.

IIRC, the Shaalos Uteshuvos Min Hashamayim also (in a Teshuvah) spells it with a Hei.

KT,
MYG




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