http://benabuya.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/ looking for alternative explanations Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:49:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://benabuya.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3739 Joel Nothman Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:50:55 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3739 I'm a bit late to the chase, but I also think you mistranslated קלין וחמורין, which I think might be "Kal VaChomers" rather than "Kal things" and "Chamur things". I’m a bit late to the chase, but I also think you mistranslated קלין וחמורין, which I think might be “Kal VaChomers” rather than “Kal things” and “Chamur things”.

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3198 Simon Holloway Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:03:04 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3198 Whoops! Thanks for that, Eliezer. I've fixed it up now. (Maths was never a particularly strong point, you know) Whoops! Thanks for that, Eliezer. I’ve fixed it up now. (Maths was never a particularly strong point, you know)

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3196 Eliezer Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:49:57 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-rabbis/#comment-3196 Check the translation and the math. Only twenty of them, not thirty, were of intermediate stature.... Check the translation and the math. Only twenty of them, not thirty, were of intermediate stature….

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