[Avodah] Theoretical and Real Shiurim

[Zev Sero]

On 16/04/2012 6:16 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> It would seem that somewhere in that chain of qabbalah, there was a flaw.
> It's not ish mipi ish since the first shemittah, or else an error couldn't
> have crept in.

The Rambam takes it on faith that it *is* ish mipi ish.  There was no error
in transmission; the "error", if one can call it that, was in the counting.
This is explicit in the Rambam; he says how he holds one should count, and
then he says that the Geonim have a kabalah that the count was not done that
way.

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                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
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