[Mesorah] How widespread is ignorance of Hebrew?

[Mandel, Seth]

I trust there is also a discussion of how many angels can stand on the head of a pit. An olive pit, at least.


Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel
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The Orthodox Union

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From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 2:41 PM
To: Mandel, Seth
Cc: mesorah at aishdas.org
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] How widespread is ignorance of Hebrew?

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 06:39:26PM +0000, Mandel, Seth wrote:
: A full book?!?!
:
: I hope at least that the book was exactly the size of a kazayis...

Really. I didn't make it up. Mostly pictures, though.

There is also a discussion about why eating an olie is less than
a kezayis, unless you swallow the pit. Of course, the pit isn't
ra'ui la'akhilah...

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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