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	<title>Al Ha veDa על הא ודא</title>
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		<title>מעיד על עצמו</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the title page of the Pentateuch in the British Foreign and Bible Society edition of the Hebrew bible:

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		<title>Tikkun Leil Hosha&#x02bf;ana Rabba</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=333</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I led a session at the Tikkun Leil Hosha&#x02bf;ana Rabba at Ellul on Thursday night, which also included readings from the Writers&#8217; Beit Midrash on Shemitta (the sabbatical year) two years ago.
For my session I developed an idea that I had already presented rather briefly in the Beit Midrash. While learning the topic Shemitta, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>חטאנו לפניך</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=330</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

מעכבר העיר של השבוע: . אני סופר 4 שגיאות. ואתם?

In the image above, from last week&#8217;s Achbar Ha`ir there are 11 Hebrew diacritics. I count 4 mistakes. Does anybody spot others?
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		<title>The Oxford Hebrew Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=325</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Ralph the Sacred River and Tyler Williams at Codex, I came across this article from Biblica by Professor Hugh Williamson on the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project.
There seem to be problems downloading the samples from the project site, so I haven&#8217;t been able to form much of an informed opinion, but I did want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They call it Gloria Mundi, but Tuesday&#8217;s just as bad</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aramaic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Davila wonders how one would say Sic transit gloria mundi in Aramaic, a challenge that I can&#8217;t resist.
A literal translation would be something like כדין יעבר שבהורא דעלמא, but what might be a more idiomatic rendering? In modern Hebrew, אֵיךְ נָפְלוּ גִבּוֹרִים is used in almost exactly the same way as  sic transit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Canada Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=310</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I wasn&#8217;t an expatriate Brit readapting to life in Israel after two years in California, I would love to be Canadian. I&#8217;ve never yet been to Canada, but that&#8217;s soon going to change: at the end of this month I&#8217;ll be in Whistler, BC.
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		<title>The Rabbis and Environmentalism</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=309</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 06:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Davila was wondering whether the following quotation from Anglican minister Martin Palmer was really Talmudic:

&#8220;The Talmud says that the angels went to God and said, &#8216;You just created this wonderful world and now you&#8217;ve created these human beings who will only go and mess it up. Are you start staring mad?&#8217; And God says, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Moment</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=307</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Life and Opinions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My youngest daughter has been a vegetarian for some months now, and her brother and sisters have not always been, let&#8217;s say, as supportive as they might be.
My son is sure that she will never make it through the annual Independence Day barbecue at my sister-in-law&#8217;s without cracking and eating meat, so they made a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It depends which way you look at it</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=304</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hebrew language and literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palæohebrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Jim Davila, a fascinating account of two readings of the name on a seal discovered in the Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem. There&#8217;s a large image of the seal  here.
Eilat Mazar&#8217;s original reading תמח was based on reading the name from the seal itself:

𐤕𐤌𐤇
The revised reading שלמת takes into account that one should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://www.smontagu.org/blog/?p=303</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Montagu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hebrew language and literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I really didn&#8217;t think that Yehuda Halevi was within my range as a translator, but this came out quite well:

יְפֵה נוֹף מְשׂוֹשׂ תֵּבֵל קִרְיָה לְמֶלֶךְ רָב.
לָךְ נִכְסְפָה נַפְשִׁי מִפַּאֲתֵי מַעְרָב!
הֲמוֹן רַחֲמַי נִכְמָר כִּי אֶזְכְּרָה קֶדֶם,
כְּבוֹדֵךְ אֲשֶׁר גָּלָה וְנָוֵךְ אֲשֶׁר חָרָב.
וּמִי יִתְּנֵנִי עַל כַּנְפֵי נְשָׁרִים, עַד
אֲרַוֶּה בְדִמְעָתִי עֲפָרֵך וְיִתְעָרָב!
דְּרַשְׁתִּיךְ, וְאִם מַלְכֵּךְ אֵין בָּךְ וְאִם בִּמְקוֹם
צֳרִי גִּלְעֲדֵך [...]]]></description>
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