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Friday, November 27, 2020
The משומד (apostate)& the Goy
The
מסורה started in the times of עזרא הסופר*
& the אנשי כנסת הגדולה. This continued on for over
a thousand years to the times of the רבנן סבוראי
and early גאונים.
The
מסורה consists of many parts.**
Because of the מסורה, we have a uniform
text of the
תנ"ך, which both the פרושים & צדוקים agree on.
The מסורה we have
today is only because of the
(apostate) משומד,יעקב בן חיים אבן
אדוניהו and the
Goy Daniel Bombergini
יעקב בן
חיים and אליהו בחור were both
employed
as editors
in the printing house of Danielle Bombergini.
D.Bomberg, an Italian Goy originally from Antwerp
was the first printer of the complete
ש"ס, the מקראות גדולות חומש and many more ספרים.
יעקב בן
חיים convinced his boss of the need to fix and
reorganize the מסורה which was completely flawed full
of mistakes & disorganized.
Bomberg invested huge sums of money to acquire many
different manuscripts for Yakov to work with.
Yaakov worked on it for years. He fixed & organized
the entire מסורה.
In the year 1547, the first מקראות גדולות חומש
with the new version of the מסורה was printed.
Yakov
wrote a fascinating and informative הקדמה***
for the new Chumash. Those reading
it will never believe that it was written by a משומד.
It is
interesting, his co-worker, Eliyahu Bachur praises
his work
and curses him (for converting) in the same sentence.
Eliyahu
Bachur writes:
"
I have never seen in any of the previous
ספרים
such perfect, beautiful and organized work as was
done
by the person whose name used to be
"Yaakov,
תהי נשמתו צרורה ***בצרור נקוב "
Hence
the מסורה we have today is from a משומד and a Goy
*They
were called Sofrim because the counted the
letters,
words, Pesukim and Parshios. (Ms. Kidushin)
**Some parts of the מסורה,(there are more)
1) How
many letters and words in each Sefer (Tanach)
2) The
טעמים (known as the Trop)
3) The
קרי & כתיב
4)
נקודות (How to pronounce)
5) Begin
& end Pesukim & Parshios
6) How
many times the word with the same
spelling
appears.
7)
חסירות ויתירות (spelling)
8) Large
& small letters
9)
Similar words elsewhere in Tanach
10) When
it's the name of Hashem and when not
*** The
original Chumashim had his name printed.
In the
later prints, the name was removed and
replaced
as הקדמת המעתיק. Most Chumashim printed today
removed the הקדמה
***A
bundle with a hole (everything falls out.
a play
on words based on a פסוק in חגי
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