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- From: krulwich@zowie.ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
- Subject: Supposed Talmud quotes (was Re: Almah in Isa 7:14)
- In-Reply-To: Harvey.Smith@p0.f1.n7002.z8.FIDONET.ORG's message of 28 Dec 92 19:38:28 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:14:28 GMT
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- Harvey.Smith@p0.f1.n7002.z8.FIDONET.ORG (Harvey Smith) writes:
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- > While it is easy to give modern renditions of a word without looking back at
- > antiquity as to the original meaning and purpose, i am dropping a couple of
- > logs onto the fire, so as to help others see what the true meaning of Almah
- > is.
-
- "Without looking back at antiquity" ?!?
-
- Noone on the net even comes close to spending the amount of time studying the
- Bible and traditional Jewish writings that is spent by Orthodox scholars
- studying in Yeshiva and Kollel. Harvey proves this later with his supposed
- Talmud quote.
-
-
- > In Rabbinics, it is interpreted as "A young maiden"
-
- Right. A young maiden who could be married (and thus not a virgin) or married
- (and thus presumably a virgin).
-
- Harvey then talks about the "coverup" of the fact that Jews 2000 years ago
- believed in a virgin birth.
-
-
- > The prophet Isaiah, rings faithful to his prophecy and states boldly:
- > "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a child and his name shall be
- > called Immanuel (G-d with us)."
-
- Proof tactic number one: proof by forceful assertion.
-
- BTW, can you tell me how you get the phrase "shall conceive" from the original
- Hebrew? The Hebrew actually says "is pregnant" in the present tense.
-
-
- Now we get Harvey's quote from the Talmud:
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- > The below quotes are taken from the English folio edition of the Talmud vol
- > ii p 386...
-
- Sorry, but can you please give a real citation to the Talmud? The second
- volume of the Talmud (Messeches Shabbos) has no page 386, and this is true of
- the Soncino English edition as well. If you're talking about some obscure
- printing, please elaborate.
-
- [Supposed Talmud quote deleted]
-
- I decided that even though your citation is nonsense, I'd check if such a
- Talmud quote exists. I checked out the verse in Psalms (110:4) that is
- included, and used the Toldos Aharon to find all the times that the verse is
- quoted in the Talmud. None of the references I got bore any resemblence to
- the supposed Talmud quote you give.
-
- So what do we see? (1) The citation you give is nonsense, and (2) it appears
- that the quote doesn't exist in the Talmud.
-
- Of course, I may be wrong. Please give a real citation if you have it. If
- you don't, please stop making up Talmud quotes.
-
- Dov (Bruce) Krulwich
- krulwich@ils.nwu.edu
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