[Avodah] The Tube of an Egg

[Zev Sero]

On 28/02/2011 9:29 AM, Micha Berger wrote:

> Most people have the nusach that this last word is with a tzeirei --
> "beitzah". The mental image being poking a hole in an eggshell filled
> with oil, so that it drips into the neir on Shabbos.
>
> The Maharil gives the beis a chiriq -- "bitzah", meaning a breed of swamp
> reed.

The Kaufmann manuscript has "beitzah":  http://tinyurl.com/6btxm79


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