Commentary for Nedarim 74:3

ולמאן דאמר שכר פיסוק טעמים מאי טעמא לא אמר שכר שימור קסבר בנות מי קא בעיין שימור

And he who maintains that the fee is for guardianship, — why does he reject the view that it is for teaching accents? — He holds that accents are also Biblical;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the system of accentuations goes back to Moses: consequently it was included in Moses' prohibition. ');">⁵</span> for R. Ika b. Abin said in the name of R. Hananel in Rab's name: What is the meaning of, And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neh. VIII, 8. ');">⁶</span>

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