<html><div> Is it clear that "yachloku" is a pausal form for Chazal? In the printed Shas, it appears in the middle of a statement, in the Mishna Yevamos 38a.</div><div> </div><div>EMT<br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon <jeremy.simon@nyu.edu><br>To: rabbi.rich.wolpoe@gmail.com<br>Cc: Mesorah List <mesorah@aishdas.org><br>Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Pausal form In Mishnah<br>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:33:52 -0500<br><br>I didn't say that we can learn nothing from the texts, although how we do so is beyond my competence. I just said that seeing a single letter in a printed text is not sufficient to base any conclusions on.</p><div>Jeremy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, R. Rich Wolpoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>This may be true, but unlike Tanach, the mesorah of the text of mishna is not well fixed. So you can't be m'dayek as easily in a given letter.<br>Jeremy�<br><br>So how can we ever know that l'shon Hazal did not have Pausals - EG gofen?<br><br>We can know leisheiv instead of losheves, but what else can we say for sure?<br><br><br>Shalom and Regards, RRW</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div> </div>-- <br>Jeremy R. Simon, MD, PhD, FACEP<br>Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Emergency Medicine)<br>Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Bioethics<br>Columbia University</div></html>
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