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<div><<First of all, whatever you are recuperating from, I
wish you a refuah sheleimah.>><br>
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Thanks. It may take several months for the nerve to recover
fully.<br>
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<<But what is not in dispute is that this story about R' Amnon
has been told for generations>><br>
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As far as I know the story first appears in Or Zarua, whose author
was a prominent member of Hasidei Ashkenaz, a student of both R.
Yehudah HeHassid and the author of the Rokeah (which contains an
extensive list of penances, none so extreme as having one's tongue
cut out).<br>
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Do you know whether it penetrated to fourtennth century Spain?<br>
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David Riceman<br>
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