[Avodah] obsolete and meaningless

[jay via Avodah]

> 
> In the introduction, list of mitzvoth, and books Mada' and Ahavah,
> the authorized version bears the signature of the Rambam, which
> renders every other text witness, obsolete and meaningless. (so you
> can put your Frankel in genizah).
>

This is strong language.  The manuscript was copied in Rambam's
lifetime, by a copyist whom Rambam knew, but didn't Rambam himself
write that he had not personally examined the copy that he was
signing, words to that effect?


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