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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Ezek 24th chapter
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:25:45 -0400


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




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