[Avodah] Format of Tehillim

Moshe Y. Gluck mgluck at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 11:36:20 PDT 2008


> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:59:02 +0100, Alan Rubin <alan at rubin.org.uk> wrote:
> > Why do the vast majority of siddurim print most tehillim as if they
> > were prose? Doesn't this obscure the poetry of the tehillim?

R' MB: 
> When written by a sofeir al kelaf, it's written like Ha'Azinu, in two
> columns. Of course this means that if you have a 3 or 1 phrase pasuq
> the pesuqim stop mid-line until the next pasuq with an odd number of
> phrases.

Then why don't those Tanach's that specifically mimic the structure of the
page written on the Klaf (like the Koren edition) print it that way? 

KT,
MYG




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