[Avodah] Leshon haKodesh

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Aug 5 22:00:52 PDT 2010


Hankman wrote:

> 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.

AIUI the "keri" that substitutes completely different words for
what is written is not HlMmS, but rather "tikum sofrim".

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