Re: Miriam's Song & Rav Berman

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I wasn't 'proving' anything- I was suggesting a possible reading of the
pasuk.
Also, the divine message to the daughters of Tzelofchad includes all their
descendents- male ones as well, so male forms would be appropriate in that
context.
                                    ek


----- Original Message -----
From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:04 AM
Subject: Miriam's Song & Rav Berman


> On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
>
> > Wasn't that how this all started? Lahem is a masculine form.
>
> That does not prove anything. There are numerous places
> throughout the Bible where a masculine form is used for
> a feminine plural pronoun. A striking example is
> Numbers 27:7, where God orders, referring to the
> daughters of Tz'lofchad: "Naton titen laheM . . .
> aviheM." LaheN/LaheM and AviheN/aviheM are used
> interchangably in that verse. (Shira Fischer once
> pointed me to this example.)
>
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Dan Jacobs wrote:
>
> >> rabbi saul berman is lenient to the point that he is
> >> barely even accepted in most orthodox circles. dont
> >> get me started on him.....
> >
> > Fair enough, I don't know him (being over in the UK),
> > I found him quoted on the Edah website a couple of
> > times.
>
> Rav Berman is affiliated with Yeshiva University and
> his interesting study on Kol Isha can be read here:
> http://www.edah.org/docs/Kol%20Isha.pdf
>
> Another interesting study is by Rav Mendel Shapiro on
> public reading of the Torah in the synagogue by women:
> http://www.edah.org/backend/JournalArticle/1_2_shapiro.pdf
>
>
>  Groeten,
>  Irwin Oppenheim
>  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
>  ~~~*
>
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>
>
>


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