On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Close: Ashkenazi sifrei Torah use Kesav BY, Sepharadim use Vellish,<br>Chassidim use BY as modified by notes based on the Ari. (Close in that<br>Vellish's very name implies some origin in Yiddish-speaking lands,<br>
but not the Rama...)</blockquote></div><br>I don't follow the logic of this: AIUI (and Yiddish is certainly not my strong suit) "Vellish" is Yiddish for "foreign" (cognate to "Welsh"), which davka implies origin *outside* Yiddish-speaking lands.
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