[Mesorah] Fwd: Rashi

[Michael Poppers via Mesorah]

To add a bit to RZS' points, the Silbermann edition of RaShY notes that the
first part of the comment ascribed to RaShY is not in old mss. -- in those
old mss., all RaShY says (as per BT Makkos) is that "b'mispar" is followed
by "arba'im".

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Zev Sero via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> On 11/01/2015 07:37 PM, Sholom Simon via Mesorah wrote:
>
>> It is worthy to note that the comment in parentheses explains that
>> the vowels on the word במספר (Bamispar) indicate it is דבוק (d'vuk)
>> to the word ארבעים (Arba'im).
>>
>
> 1. What parens?  Does your chumash have parens around this Rashi?
> 2. It *doesn't* say "bamispor", it says "bemispor", with a sh'vo
> under the beis.  That is what Rashi uses to say it's attached to
> the first word of the next posuk.
> 3. He's not just ignoring trop, he's ignoring the end of a posuk;
> but he's doing so because that's how Chazal interpreted it, and
> he holds that it's not drash, it's pshat.
>
>
>
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