[Avodah] timeline??

[Harvey Benton]

my question is, what was there to learn from the 

tagim, when the original text (most believe) was
not the modern hebrew that we use ??

 
hmz
















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 From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
To: Lisa Liel <lisa at starways.net> 
Cc: The Avodah Torah Discussion Group <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>; Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Avodah] timeline??
 
On 20/12/2011 5:28 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> On 12/20/2011 3:46 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 20/12/2011 3:56 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
>>> *didn't ezra hasofer change the letters?? (and there fore the tagim
>>> *were then added??) how then could R. Akiva learn the halachot*
>>> *from the tagim (since he came earlier????) or was this a different*
>>> *Akiva??*
>>
>> Rabbi Akiva was at least 400 years *after* Ezra!
>
> That took me aback at first also, but it's just poor use of antecedents. The parenthetical "he" was Ezra.

No it wasn't.  If Ezra introduced the tagim then what's the problem
with R Akiva using them 400 years later?  The problem only arises if
it's the other way around.


-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
         are expanding through human ingenuity."
                                    - Julian Simon
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