[Avodah] Leshon haKodesh

[Hankman]

RZS wrote:

 At the time the
Torah was written, perhaps "yishgalenah" was still thought of as clean,
but at some later stage it became dirty so the sofrim instituted a
kri that was even more indirect and thus cleaner.

RAH wrote:

Where does Rambam say this? I wonder how he gets around Megillah 25b,
where it is explicitly stated that "qri" renders objectionable terms in
"ktiv" acceptable for reading in public.

CM notes:

I think some of the posts here are mixing two different concepts and treating them as one. To  my understanding (I have no specific cite) Kri and Ksiv are halacha leMoshe miSinai (at least in Chumash if not in Nach). Whereas the subject matter in Megilla 25b, (Mishna and gemara) refer not to Kri and Ksiv, but to Kriah and Targum, not the same as Kri and Ksiv and likely of Chazal's origination based on the meaning at the time as others have noted.

Kol tuv

Chaim Manaster
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