[Mesorah] Pausal form In Mishnah

[Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon]

I didn't say that we can learn nothing from the texts, although how we do
so is beyond my competence. I just said that seeing a single letter in a
printed text is not sufficient to base any conclusions on.
Jeremy

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, R. Rich Wolpoe <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> This may be true, but unlike Tanach, the mesorah of the text of mishna is
> not well fixed. So you can't be m'dayek as easily in a given letter.
> Jeremy»
>
> So how can we ever know that l'shon Hazal did not have Pausals - EG gofen?
>
> We can know leisheiv instead of losheves, but what else can we say for
> sure?
>
>
> Shalom and Regards, RRW




-- 
Jeremy R. Simon, MD, PhD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Bioethics
Columbia University
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