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Journal Article
Measure for Measure
2024
Overview
In an article published in this journal more than thirty years ago, Raphael Jospe argued (citing an oral tradition that he traced back to Mordechai Kaplan) that the term regel in the famed talmudic narrative about a gentile who approached Shammas and Hillel desiring to be taught the entire Torah \"on one regel\" is intended as a bilingual pun. Jospe supported Kaplan's argument, demonstrating its likelihood as well as its ramifications, and added several circumstantial and contextual considerations, which need not be repeated in detail. This brief note adds two tentative pieces of evidence pertaining to wordplay in the narrative that are not found in Jospe's article--one based on a textual variant, the other on close attention to the proselyte's choice of words. The two new pieces of evidence are not dependent on Jospe's theory and are worthy of consideration in their own right even if Kaplan's insight is rejected as unlikely.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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