{"id":173,"date":"2012-03-02T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/?p=173"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:38:21","slug":"tezaveh-and-scribal-exuberance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/2012\/03\/02\/tezaveh-and-scribal-exuberance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tezaveh and scribal exuberance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exodus 28:36, a verse from this week’s parsha; \u05d5\u05e2\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05e6\u05d9\u05e5 \u05d6\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d8\u05d4\u05d5\u05e8… “Make a tzitz<\/i> of pure gold…” Go look it up.<\/p>\n

In some sifrei Torah, the final tzaddi of the word \u05e6\u05d9\u05e5 is writ large, including in the sefer I’m presently writing:<\/p>\n

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Here’s another one, from a different sefer (presently in Berlin; my last congregation but one donated the sefer to a community in need when they got their new sefer written by me; isn’t that beautiful?):<\/p>\n

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Here, note particularly the little fractal zayins on the word \u05d6\u05d4\u05d1. <\/p>\n

I’m not writing about why all this, this week. Have a think about it for now. When I come to CBH in a few weeks’ time, we’ll be learning more about these. Look out for the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exodus 28:36, a verse from this week’s parsha; \u05d5\u05e2\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05e6\u05d9\u05e5 \u05d6\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d8\u05d4\u05d5\u05e8… “Make a tzitz of pure gold…” Go look it up. In some sifrei Torah, the final tzaddi of the word \u05e6\u05d9\u05e5 is writ large, including in the sefer I’m presently writing: Here’s another one, from a different sefer (presently in Berlin; my last … Continue reading Tezaveh and scribal exuberance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-cool","category-torah-portion","tag-teztaveh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}