[Avodah] Yekum Purkan

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:45 am, Zev Sero wrote:
:> 2- Yequm Purqan sounds like Babylonian Aramaic to my untrained ear.
:> It
:> has all those words with trailing vowels one finds in the language
:> of
:> people called "rabi" as opposed to that of "rav".

: But Rabbi was used in EY, and Rav in Bavel...

Yes. And obviously "Rabbi Aqiva" and "Rabbi Shim'on bar Yochai" just
leapt to mind. Nu, time for a nap.

In any case, this would seem to prove RRW's first point, that Yequm
Purqan is Israeli.

Which would make it contrary to Agus's theory about Ashkenazi practice
showing more heritage of Israeli mesorah. Not a counter-proof, as I
still stand by the other part of that post (pending review) that
Agus's theory is simply unfalsifiable and therefore unscientific.
(Whether or not the theory is in line with actual migration patterns
as already known in more solid ways, and thus true anyway.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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