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Re: Calendar, MMT & Enoch (Combined)
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:05:54 -0800 Moshe Shulman wrote:
>>From: netzarim@netvision.net.il
>>Yirmiyahu:
>>Particularly if CD was the earlier document as I and others hold, then at
>>the time of CD, Moreh Tzeddek *could* only have referred to a single
>>historical person.
>
>Moshe:
>The opposite is the case. If CD is earlier, then it is POST MT's death.
>That means if MMT is by the Moreh Tzedik, it is a SECOND one.
I'm not sure but I think we're saying a couple of the same things and/or
somehow miscommunicating. I suggested that, if CD is earlier, then, being
post MTz-1's death, _CD_ could only have referred to MTz-1, since CD didn't
refer to himself as a MTz-n [n>1]. I specifically referred to "at the time
of CD," not MMT. (On the other hand, that the author of CD didn't seem to
regard himself _a_ MTz-n seems to be a contradiction -- the model seems to
be getting a little frayed here.) So the implication of my suggestion was
indeed that, if MMT is by _a_ MTz, he would be a subsequent one and *not*
MTz-1. Hence, even if MMT were authored by a MTz-n, dating MMT according
to MTz-1, *or the reverse* (dating MTz-1 based on MMT), wouldn't be
justified. In this regard, the only thing that seems clear is that MTz-1
predated CD. And, it seems to me, that still allows for Khonyo (Onias) III
as the MTz-1 and Jason as the Koheyn ha-Ra?
>>Yirmiyahu:
>>Are there other indications that contradict the use of the title passing
>>to successors?
>
>Moshe:
>CD uses the term 'Moreh HaYachud' for the Moreh Tzedik, which seems to
>indicate the special character that he was.
I'd missed that, thanks. Considering this, however, might this also argue
the opposite, that a special term was necessary for MTz-1 *because* MTz was
becoming used more generically as a title? I don't mean to imply a direct
succession into the Teymaniy community. That seems unlikely to me (though
not fantastic) on other grounds (the need to then explain the halakhic
transition and continuity a direct succession would imply). However, it
seems to me to argue *for* the antiquity of the term "Moreh" as the local
teacher, rather than against, i.e., *for* such a connection to the
tradition we find documented in DSS?
Kol tuv,
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08:19:54 Y'rushalayim Time, 11/27/96
Yirmiyahu Ben-David, Paqiyd 16; Ra'anana, Israel
Q'hiylat Ha-N'tzarim
(Global Congregation of Nazarene Jews)
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