[Avodah] Leshon haKodesh

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From: Zev Sero _zev at sero.name_ (mailto:zev at sero.name) 

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).... 

 

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

-- 
Zev  Sero                                



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I have seen the very phrase "tikun sofrim" explained/translated in two very 
 different ways:
 
1.  Corrections, emendations made for various reasons by the sofrim,  i.e., 
the chachamim who lived after the Torah was given to Moshe
 
2.  "Corrections" made by Hashem Himself at the very time that He gave  the 
Torah to Moshe -- that is, stylistic refinements on what He might otherwise 
 have written if He were not improving His own words, making them, for 
example,  less explicit or less coarse in certain places.  According to this  
definition, variations in ksiv/kri are not inadvertent changes that crept in  
during the course of transmission nor are they intentional changes by later  
chachamim, but rather, both variant readings were intended ab initio.
 
BTW a long-running thread on Areivim has been discussing the meaning of the 
 phrase "lesaken olam" in Aleinu.  I wonder how RZS would now translate 
that  phrase in view of the fact that "tikun sofrim" surely refers  to "fixing, 
correcting, improving, emending"?
 
 


--Toby Katz
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