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<DIV>In a message dated 8/26/2008 12:53:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
raphaeldavidovich@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Adam
spoke something we will call Loshon Kodesh. The degree to which his
language resembled the language Moshe Rabbeinu spoke is unclear and
halachically irrelevant. [--RRD]<BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>>>>>><BR>"Histakel b'Oraisah uvara alma" -- in what language
was that primordial Torah written? In some language other
than the Torah that we have? Proto-Semitic? Was it, perhaps, not
written at all, but just existed as ideas in the Mind of G-d?</DIV>
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<DIV>[I have to clarify what I mean by "written" or "not written."
Presumably Hashem did not use ink and parchment to write the primordial Torah
but it could still have been written in the sense of composed in the exact words
and order of the Torah that He gave to Moshe Rabeinu -- "letters of black fire
written on parchment of white fire" -- for an analogy of what I mean, think
of Solzhenitsyn who composed his monumental Gulag Archipelago in his head,
reviewed and memorized exactly what he had "written" and eventually wrote it
down, when he had the opportunity to do so. This would be analogous to a
Torah Shebichtav even before it was actually written on paper. The
contrast would be somebody with a lot of ideas and thoughts in his mind which he
had not yet composed into a set form and order -- analogous to the Torah
Shebe'al peh before the Talmud was written. When Hashem looked into the
Torah and created the world, was it the same Torah *in the same words* as the
Torah he gave Moshe? That's my question.]</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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