[Avodah] Moshe's name in the haggadah.

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:26:17AM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
: But did you ever notice that when the gemara quotes a pasuk it
: is the part of the pasuk not quoted that has the needed information?
: Anyone know any general rules on this "literary" issue in the gemara?

I always thougth that was a publication decision. After all, there
are times when the derashah the gemara is relying on is in the piece
not quoted!

 From those rare cases I would suggest that the gemara just decided,
whether in the original or by a copyist or a later publisher, to give
you enough to know which pasuq is under discussion. Not that the tanna
or amorah necessarily referred to half a pasuq.

And so, as RRW noted, now that printing is cheaper and the effort of
typing and editing electronic "pages" is miniscule (and people don't
master Tanakh as a prerequisite for learning gemara), it's easy to make
the alternative decision of putting the whole pasuq somewhere on the page.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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