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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A full book?!?!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I hope at least that the book was exactly the size of a kazayis...<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 12, 2019 2:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mandel, Seth<br>
<b>Cc:</b> mesorah@aishdas.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] How widespread is ignorance of Hebrew?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 06:02:38PM +0000, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah wrote:<br>
: As far as my opening question: go not farther than the t'shuva of the Noda biYehudah about how to pronounce HaShem. He expresses astonishment at the question. Apparently when he grew up everyone was taught it. But the world was changing: chasidus and Reform
had just started, and the Jewish traditions of teaching and studying were falling to pieces.<br>
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The ghetto walls fell, the Jewish traditions could no longer be picked<br>
up by osmosis from the Jewish Street, people relied more on teaching and<br>
studying for things that used to be able to be taken for granted. Like<br>
pronouncing the sheim H' in the NbY's day. Or the need for a full book<br>
explaining to this generation what a kezayis is.<br>
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:-)BBii!<br>
-Micha<br>
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Micha Berger We are what we repeatedly do.<br>
micha@aishdas.org Thus excellence is not an event,<br>
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