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That is NOT the tradition of all Jews, and stems from a mistake, as is clear from the mss. and from the earliest printings.</div>
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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.<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel</span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mesorah <mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Zev Sero via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mesorah@aishdas.org <mesorah@aishdas.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] òùøú äãáøåú How do we get to 10</font>
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<div class="PlainText">> But it is not only the Teimanim. Rabbi Mordechai Breuer concluded<br>
> that that was the original in all the oldest mss., and so he prints<br>
> the Ta‘am ha‘Elyon that way in all the editions of the Chumash and<br>
> T'Nakh that he put out, including the Torat Chaim edition of the<br>
> Chumash published by Mosad haRav Kook.<br>
More evidence that such a reading did exist is that the future meshumad <br>
who did the pasuk count at the end of each parsha wrote that Yisro has <br>
72 pesukim, rather than the 75 that it has in Taam Tachton. The only <br>
way to get 72 is for the Aseres Hadibros to contain 10 pesukim, not 9.<br>
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And yet our tradition is that the Taam Elyon deliberately combines the <br>
first two dibros together, to show that they were heard directly from <br>
Hashem. Surely that is more authoritative (at least for us) than <br>
whatever anyone has found in some manuscripts. Perhaps the authors of <br>
those manuscripts were wrong, and the keepers of the authentic tradition <br>
rejected them for it. It's like trying to show the correct text from <br>
things found in a geniza -- perhaps they were put in the geniza <br>
precisely because they were pasul!<br>
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-- <br>
Zev Sero Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy 5781<br>
zev@sero.name "May this year and its curses end<br>
May a new year and its blessings begin"<br>
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