SC - Re: Kuskenole - was, Authenticity, philosophy, and advocacy

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/22/00 2:11:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

> Sounds plausible to me....kind of like the situation in Babylon 5 where 
G'Kar
>  explains a ring mark in a copy of a book he had written, stating that 
> everything
>  was included when a book was recopied!  The ring was a coffee ring from 
> where
>  another character had been reading the book.  Yeah, I know...it's off 
topic,
>  even 'way out of period.  But, hey...it applies!
>  
>  Kiri

Okay, I've come in way late on this topic, but you could also say in period 
this would be accurate. My husband's exgirlfriend's dad is a rabbi, and he 
states that every single mark in the Torah has to be copied exact, that if it 
isn't exact--a letter corrected, a mark not made--then the entire text to 
that point is burned and it starts again. So, you know in that example they 
have been doing it that way for over a 1000 years.... I

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Lars