<html><head></head><body dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;">And certain other things, such as k'no'omakh at the end of birkhost QS in the morning, in all old Ashk'nazi mss.</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;">It is a methodological error to say since mss. disagree on some things that they disagree in everything."</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;">Perhaps it's a methodological error to presume that the MSS. Had it right? Maybe they reflected errors that crept into the texts? </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">I have Hofmeister's Siddur with Tushbachos. Yet he preserves many many "pausals".</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">He also has r-tzon koneihem, which may be historically correct, but smacks of polytheism. Even if authentic, there is good reason for emendation.</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">IMHO being a slave to Manuscripts is another sheetah.</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">Just like being a slave to l'shon Mikra. It's a bias. </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">The G'ra emened masechtos Sof'rim and Derech Eretz often to conform to the Bavli. His emendations often read much better. But I'm not sure that EG Sof'rim in E"Y had the same POV as did the Bavli in Bovel. It's just a "guess" </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div></body></html>