Timeline for What is the longest masechta?
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 14:05 | comment | added | Oliver | @Yehoshua 2/2 Furthermore, supposing the VG did assert so, I wonder (but doubt) if his emendations and the textual variants between the edition(s) he used (Amsterdam 1644 & Frankfurt on the Oder 1715) and the Mamre text (IIRC they use the Vilna ed.) could make up for the discrepancy. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 13:36 | comment | added | Oliver | @Shalom 1/2 While I’ve heard the rumor too for many years, with different names of masechtot and in the name of various people I’ve never seen a legitimate source from the VG. But supposing the rumor is true I wonder if a) the individual(s) who asserted so was simply wrong or b) the the computation of words yielded different totals; IOW, Rabbi X counted קמ״ל as three words (=קא משמע לן) whereas the computer counts it as one. Same goes for dozens of other acronyms. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 12, 2016 at 17:16 | comment | added | Yehoshua | @Shalom They say it in the name of the Vilna Gaon, but I have no idea why. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:52 | comment | added | Shalom | So at least I'm not the only one who heard the debunked Brachos rumor ... I wonder where it came from. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:50 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 26, 2010 at 21:44 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 2.5 |