[Mesorah] עשרת הדברות How do we get to 10

[Mandel, Seth]

That is NOT the tradition of all Jews, and stems from a mistake, as is clear from the mss. and from the earliest printings.
Not all current practices in shuls are based on Jewish tradition.  I will remind you of the practice of upsheren, which is historically documented was never known in Europe, even by the Alter rebbe, until a chosid who had emigrated to Israel in the 19th Century asked in a letter why the chasidim in Chutz Laaretz do not know about this custom.  And yet Lubavitsch chasidim believe that the Be'ShT gave an opsheren to the alter rebbe, and just try to tell any of them that that is not true.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel

________________________________
From: Mesorah <mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Zev Sero via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:42 AM
To: mesorah at aishdas.org <mesorah at aishdas.org>
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] עשרת הדברות How do we get to 10

> But it is not only the Teimanim. Rabbi Mordechai Breuer concluded
> that that was the original in all the oldest mss., and so he prints
> the Ta‘am ha‘Elyon that way in all the editions of the Chumash and
> T'Nakh that he put out, including the Torat Chaim edition of the
> Chumash published by Mosad haRav Kook.
More evidence that such a reading did exist is that the future meshumad
who did the pasuk count at the end of each parsha wrote that Yisro has
72 pesukim, rather than the 75 that it has in Taam Tachton.  The only
way to get 72 is for the Aseres Hadibros to contain 10 pesukim, not 9.

And yet our tradition is that the Taam Elyon deliberately combines the
first two dibros together, to show that they were heard directly from
Hashem. Surely that is more authoritative (at least for us) than
whatever anyone has found in some manuscripts.  Perhaps the authors of
those manuscripts were wrong, and the keepers of the authentic tradition
rejected them for it.  It's like trying to show the correct text from
things found in a geniza -- perhaps they were put in the geniza
precisely because they were pasul!


--
Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy 5781
zev at sero.name       "May this year and its curses end
                      May a new year and its blessings begin"
_______________________________________________
Mesorah mailing list
Mesorah at lists.aishdas.org
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.aishdas.org_listinfo.cgi_mesorah-2Daishdas.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=VTwaeXjOsAHot2hQQ0nozrBJwyviuCtydNuGwYGfYiI&r=e6XbAQdGwcl_5FMtQ-t1eA&m=a7hYri7S7RARGOiLC0rwelIC_BckvwI_NL-rr4WkicI&s=V-w-WownM6slbstalDXykUajXuhLMinxz51iMKoyqf4&e=


Legal Disclaimer

The contents of this email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. You must not use or disclose them other than for the purposes for which they were supplied. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete or destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Any privilege or confidentiality pertaining to this email and attachments is not waived by reason of mistaken delivery to you.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/mesorah-aishdas.org/attachments/20210209/69cb9c04/attachment-0002.htm>