[Avodah] timeline??

[Zev Sero]

On 20/12/2011 3:56 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> *didn't ezra hasofer change the letters?? (and there fore the tagim
> *were then added??) how then could R. Akiva learn the halachot*
> *from the tagim (since he came earlier????) or was this a different*
> *Akiva??*

Rabbi Akiva was at least 400 years *after* Ezra!

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