[Avodah] Lying to protect the simple of faith

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Yitzhak Grossman <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:24:01 -0400
> Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:03:45AM -0400, Michael Makovi wrote:
> ...
>
> > : 1a) Rather, then, Rambam is saying that no deliberate additions were
> > : made after Moshe...
> >
> > Or even semantic accidental changes. Cheseiros and yeseiros, or
> variations
> > in the spelling of "petzua daka", may change the kashrus of a seifer,
> > but unless you have a beis din ready to derashin a din from that pasuq,
> > they won't make a stitch of difference.
>
> Minhas Hinuch (#613) tries to argue your claim, that we assume accuracy
> even with regard to haseros ve'yeseros as long as they are semantically
> significant, but he runs into trouble with the word 'totafos', since
> according to Rashi, the Gemara's D'rashah of the four Parshiyos of
> Tefillin is based on the plene spelling of the word in Parshas Ve'haya
> Im, whereas we have it deficient.
>
> > Tir'u baTov!
> > -Micha
>
> Yitzhak
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I've been told that Rashi had 6-7 spelling differences in his version of
Torah from our version of the Torah. One that comes to mind is in my Sidra -
viz.Chanichav.

Rabbi Kanarfogel told me that such changes do come about but that they must
go through the Halachic Process.

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