[Avodah] Shabbos King

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 05:47:27AM -0400, I wrote:
: I would like to propose that it rests on whether one has our girsa in
: Shabbos 119a of "Shabbos haMalkah", with a hei, or whether R' Chanina is
: taken as speaking of "Shabbos haMalka", with an alef. Although perhaps
: the Rambam's girsa was further from ours...

R Dr Eszra Schwat of the Machleqet Kitvei Yad of Israel's National Library
ran with the question.

See <http://imhm.blogspot.com/2011/09/gender-awareness-on-shabbat.html>

The use of malkah (with a hei) or malkesa (Aramaic feminine) appears to
correlate with which locales had access to the Bahir (with the exception
of the Raavan).

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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