[Mesorah] Speaking of Temani customs

[Ira L. Jacobson]

At 19:53 17-04-19  +0000, Mandel, Seth stated the following:
>knowledge of Aramaic was nil in medieval Europe. Anything composed 
>in Aramaic from that period is full of errors, sometimes quite 
>serious ones. This is not a problem confined to the afterSeder 
>compositions, but covers so many things.

This is interesting reasoning.  Let us assume that the figure stated 
for ignorance of Aramaic among Jews at the stated time is accurate.

In England in the mid-1500s the illiteracy rate in the English 
language in England was about 75 percent for men and 95 percent for 
women.  From that I can conclude that William Shakespeare's writings 
are full of errors, sometimes quite serious ones.

Or not?




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