[Avodah] Modern Day Sifrei Torahs

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:19:12PM -0800, Harvey Benton wrote:
: Kiddusin 30a mentions the Vav of Gachon as the middle letter
: of the Torah.  Also discussed there are the
: exact number of words and verses in the Torah.  
: For our purposes, what comes out, is that at the very least, that at the
: time of the Gemara they were not expert in chaser and yeter. 

Gachon isn't nearly close. It can't be resolved by cheseiros and yeseiros.
That said, R' Meir wrote that we aren't beqi'im, and that's a generation
before the mishnah.

I think the Rambam's point is semantic. After all, the ikkar includes
the process of TSBP.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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