[Avodah] To Stand or Not to Stand for a Chosson and Kallah

[Micha Berger]

Since we're revisiting the subject, please see 
<http://imhm.blogspot.com/2011/09/gender-awareness-on-shabbat.html>,
R' Dr Ezra Schwat's researched answer on the girsa, triggered by our
last round.

I had a couple of more thoughts about RZS's proposal that perhaps it
was a nigleh vs nistar issue.

1- The gemara itself refers to Shabbos as a woman: "Bo'i kalah, bo'i
kalah". So if this Andalusian girsa is taken as more correct, the issue
RZS proposes as a gap between nigleh and nistar is not the gender of a
person as a metaphor for Shabbos in general, but only of the Shabbos as
monarch metaphor in particular.

2- Personally, I find it more likely the majority of manuscripts is
correct. But even if not the rishonim who were mequbalim did not think
it was a nigleh vs nistar issue, because they favored the girsa in the
gemara of "hamalkah". If RZS's suggestion were correct, they would
have left the Andalusian manuscript as is.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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