The Gemoro (Kidushin 30a) says that the middle (in words) of the
Torah is at דרש דרש משה .
According to
the computer, this statement seems to be incorrect*1.
My father A”H
told me that in the Torah we have 81 times where the same word
appears twice, next to each other *2. Forty of them appear before דרש דרש משה and the other 40 appear after דרש
דרש משה.
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*1 On words we can’t answer אין
אנו בקיאין בחסרות ויתרות
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*2 (example) אלה תולדת נח נח איש צדיק
1- where does the computer put the mid-point?
ReplyDelete2- have you ever counted the 81 times?
Plagiarized right out of the tur Ha-Aruch
ReplyDelete"Plagiarized" ? I wrote that I heard it from my father. He might
ReplyDeletehave told me he saw it in a Sefer but I don't remember because
I was a child when he told it to me.
BTW I checked the טור הארוך פ' שמיני and it's not there.