Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>]

On 13 Aug 98, at 17:31, Andrew C Smith wrote:


> But if, as the Talmud suggests (in the tractate "ketubot"), this
> "adornment" does indeed refer to TEFILLIN and TSE-TSE-OT, then this is
> the only occasion on which one may not wear these otherwise mandatory
> garments. 
 
I am inclined to doubt that these were the adornments Ezekiel had in mind.  I 
would suggest that this Talmudic interpretation is a typical midrash, which 
need not correspond to the simple plain meaning of the text.

Lewis Reich
LBR AT sprynet.com