[Avodah] two fictional sects

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Sat Apr 21 20:41:25 PDT 2012


On 21/04/2012 11:34 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> Rashi d"h "degazri hamachus gezeira".  Rashi explains what sort of gezeira
>> >  is meant, and how it could lead to problems with the calendar.  And he does
>> >  so*in the second person*.  This clearly shows that these words are part of
>> >  the letter, not commentary on it.   As for the language, Hebrew and Aramaic
>> >  are often used interchangeably within the same sentence in the gemara.

> He describes the effects of some future gezeira on the people in that
> country. It obviously doesn't refer to the letter's generation in
> particular according to either of us. Nothing about second person.

What are you talking about, it's clearly in the second person.  How can
you possibly deny that, the words are right there on the page.  The
Sanhedrin is addressing the Bavlim directly.  If these were not the
Sanhedrin's words but Abaye's (or the stama digemara's) commentary, then
Rashi would express his explanation in the third person, or even perhaps
in the first person since it's being said by a Bavli.  But he explains it
in the second person, because the words he's explaining are being said
by the Sanhedrin to the Bavlim, about what the Sanhedrin fears might happen
to the Bavlim in the future.

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