[Avodah] Yekum Purkan

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> 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, it's irrelevant, because the difference isn't one of
language.  Rabbi means someone with smicha and Rav means someone
without.  That's why all the Rabbis were from EY and the Ravs from
Bavel.  So it proves nothing about YP's dialect.

 
> 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.

Huh?  You still have that backwards.  YP being Israeli and not Bavli
would *support* Agus's theory.  It would explain why A say it and
S don't.  But it still seems odd that the S equivalent is in Hebrew
and not Aramaic, which was the original cause of my posting about it.

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