<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I don't think this is particularly modern. With the exception of<br>
comparison of girsa'os, using new girsa'os found by Chokhmas Yisrael,<br>
comparisons of the sort RJJB discusses were common. Until Brisker<br>
Derekh crowded them out.<br>
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It's an element of the derekh halimmud proposed by RAEK in<br>
<<a href="http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/beyt/16.doc" target="_blank">http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/beyt/16.doc</a>><br>
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SheTir'u baTov!<br>
-micha<br>
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Micha Berger <br></blockquote></div><br>Even the work on varying girsaos is quite an old business, and the chochmas Yisroel people have no monopoly on this stuff. <br><br>I am doing Pirkei R. Eliezer and teh Eshkol edition has a peirush that shows from Hanoch to Noach [re: sod ho'ibbur] is missing a generation and goes into an entire girsa dissertation.<br>
<br>Rashi/Tosafos/Bach/Gra/Ya'vetz/Reshash to name a few were very involved in girsa 'fixing" Rambam reportedly wsinto girsa "sifting" and apparently chekced out varying girsaos for Talmud and I would assume Mishna also. The Kafich edition of Rambam's Mishnayos is based upon the Rambam's own ksav yad as much as possible.<br>
<br><br>Much of the modern girsaos stuff on the Rambam's Mishneh Torah is largely based upon Teimani Tradtional texts and not on Wissenshaft<br><br>AIUI, Rabinozitz of Dikdukei Soferim on the Talmud was not a follower
of Chochmas Yisroel either, but I may be wrong on this one.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>