Abstract
The present article is a study of the Genizah fragment containing parts of various sugyot from tractate Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud. The principal focus is on the peculiarities of the Aramaic sections seen in contrast with the Hebrew parts of the text. The article introduces the ancient Aramaic wording in the fragment, emphasizing the consistent use of Aramaic, the elements of Aramaic grammar, the clarity of the usage and the precision of the linguistic specification. Proceeding along the same lines, the article also considers the relatively rare use of terminology in connection with the name of one of the Tannaim, as well as the use of Hebrew and a particular problem arising in connection with the fragment’s content – an issue which also arises in other versions of the same text.
Highlights
2 The Text of the Printed Version[1]. If he [a man] feels pains in his bowels, let him engage in the study of the Torah, since it is said, It shall be a healing to thy navel.[1]
Ammi said: What is the exposition of the Scriptural text, For it is pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: let them be established altogether upon thy lips?5 When are the words of the Torah “pleasant”? “When thou keepest them within thee”
Raba said: Even a man who engaged in trade and made a large profit should act in a similar manner
Summary
Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG. Belo Horizonte, v. 11, n. 20, maio 2017. This may be derived from the following: But the word is very high unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it;[7] When “is it very high unto thee”? When it is “in thy mouth and in thy heart to do it” Raba said, It may be derived from the following: Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and the utterance of his lips Thou hast not with holden. Jacob: Wherever [in Scripture] the expression of nezah, selah or waed occurs the process to which it refers never ceases
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