Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Starting with Bet

I know that our myth-busting professors at JTS would say that the reason all massechtot start with Bet is a printer decision in the early period of the printing press, and I know that there is nothing even remotely holy about the Vilna page of shas (another printer's decision). All that said, it is still exciting to open that first Vilna page of a new massechet and know that though you may finish every daf, you will never see the first page. I can not wait to learn together, starting from bet.

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