Abstract
This article refers to a Cairo Genizah fragment related to Bavli, Tractate Eruvin 102b-104a, identified as Cambridge, UL T-S F2 (2) 23. FGP No. C 98948. In the fragment, there are two words, “mor” and “yabolet”, which were written as vocalized by the scribe or copyist. Their pronunciation differs from that customary today, i.e., “mar” and “yabelet”. The purpose of this paper is to explain how this pronunciation was generated, the evolvement and development of this pronunciation as it appears in the fragment, and to examine whether there are additional words in other sources that were pronounced similarly. This paper begins with a description of the Genizah fragment and continues with a reproduction of the fragment itself.
Highlights
The fragment is a segment from the Cairo Genizah, and it relates to Tractate Eruvin of the BabylonianTalmud (102b), identified as Cambridge U-L T-S F2 (2) 23 (Figure 1)
“yabolet”, which were written as vocalized by the scribe or copyist. Their pronunciation differs from that customary today, i.e., “mar” and “yabelet”
The purpose of this paper is to explain how this pronunciation was generated, the evolvement and development of this pronunciation as it appears in the fragment, and to examine whether there are additional words in other sources that were pronounced
Summary
The fragment is a segment from the Cairo Genizah, and it relates to Tractate Eruvin of the BabylonianTalmud (102b), identified as Cambridge U-L T-S F2 (2) 23 (Figure 1). The legible part of the fragment, which parallels that of the printed version, begins with the words “חטאת [for such acts] a sin-offering is incurred but here, though the preliminary requirements of a precept supersede the Sabbath, a change must be made as far as this is possible?—No, it may represent the view of the Rabbis, and if the wen had grown on his belly the law would have been so, but here we are dealing with one, for instance, that grew on his back or his elbows where he himself cannot remove it.
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