<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>my question is, what was there to learn from the <br></span></div><div><span>tagim, when the original text (most believe) was</span></div><div><span>not the modern hebrew that we use ??<br></span></div><div> </div><div>hmz</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean,
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bold;">Cc:</span></b> The Avodah Torah Discussion Group <avodah@lists.aishdas.org>; Harvey Benton <harvw613@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:52 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Avodah] timeline??<br> </font> <br>
On 20/12/2011 5:28 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:<br>> On 12/20/2011 3:46 PM, Zev Sero wrote:<br>>> On 20/12/2011 3:56 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:<br>>>> *didn't ezra hasofer change the letters?? (and there fore the tagim<br>>>> *were then added??) how then could R. Akiva learn the halachot*<br>>>> *from the tagim (since he came earlier????) or was this a different*<br>>>> *Akiva??*<br>>><br>>> Rabbi Akiva was at least 400 years *after* Ezra!<br>><br>> That took me aback at first also, but it's just poor use of antecedents. The parenthetical "he" was Ezra.<br><br>No it wasn't. If Ezra introduced the tagim then what's the problem<br>with R Akiva using them 400 years later? The problem only arises if<br>it's the other way around.<br><br><br>-- <br>Zev Sero "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful<br><a ymailto="mailto:zev@sero.name"
href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a> economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion<br> may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather<br> are expanding through human ingenuity."<br> - Julian Simon<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>