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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:52:42 -0400
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On Monday, September 23, 2013 15:17:26 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   So... wondering why you use pricaio and not "pruci-", in keeping with the
> Aramaic/Hebrew whence it comes.

It's "prisha" in Aramaic. Some words, such as some participles, have "-u-" in 
Hebrew and "-i-" in Aramaic.

>   Sidenote -- interesting that he uses the metaphor of walking on a hidden
> grave, since the whole import of that is the laws of tumah (ritual
> impurity) (walking over a buried person imparts tumah which is very
> difficult to get rid of, and a cohen (priest) is not allowed to do it at
> all, and others would be forbidden in engaging in certain ritual acts while
> in this state.  But since J often makes a point of downplaying the whole
> purity system (and upbraiding the Pharisees for their rigid adherence to
> it), it seems a strange metaphor to use.

Is tumah from walking over a buried person by a lo-cohen in the written Torah, 
or is it a taqanah or fence or something?

mi tatpi lo nu zukti so'ida .i le ckana bene'i le bu'uzda cu denpa tu'a mi

mu'omi'e .pier.
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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