פירוש על ברכות 30:30

Viz. the deaf person is in a different category from the mentally defective and minor. The text is literally: Perhaps this as it is and that as it is.

The stage of mental development when he is introduced to the practice of the religious duties — about the age of nine or ten years.

As in note 2 p. 97.

As in note 3 p. 97.

As in note 4 p. 97.

As in notes 8 and 9 p. 97.

M.: Mar 'Ukba.

I.e. ab initio it should be audible; only post factum is it valid if inaudible.

And post factum the inaudible reading is valid.

Which involve the utterance of a benediction.

Therefore audibility should be required!

The word hasket translated "attend" is rendered in R.V. "keep silence." For some Rabbinic interpretations of the word, see fol. 63 b.

With R. Judah in permitting the inaudible reading to suffice post factum, and with R. Jose in allowing the letters to be indistinctly enunciated.

Referring to the Sadducees ; cf . Schurer, II. ii. p. 38.

So M. correctly ; not Osha'yah as in edd. Rab Josiah is not the same as R. Josiah mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

E.g. "Thou shalt write them... thou shalt bind them."

On this argument, see p. 18 n. 5.

welimmadtem "and ye shall teach" is pointed welimmud tam "and the teaching [shall be] perfect."

By reason of a word ending with the same letter as the initial of the next word.

J.T. adds the interesting example, nishba' 'adonai "The Lord hath sworn," emphasizing the difference in the two guttural letters. It indeed mentions that one who is unable to make a clear pronunciation of the gutturals may not conduct a Service.

With these alterations the verse reads, "When one utters the name of the Almighty distinctly in the prayer where the King [majestic plural] is [i.e. which contains a reference to the Kingdom of Heaven, viz. the Shema'], it snoweth in the shadow of death." The words melakim bah "kings therein" have been connected, with more ingenuity than probability, by Schorr (quoted in Goldschmidt) with όμοιόλογοϛ and βοή, making the first clause mean: When one utters the name of the Almighty distinctly, reading the words of similar sound plainly.