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מנחם רהט: התענית שנמחקה מלוח השנה
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gett in colloquial terms refers specifically to a bill of divorce (see Rashi to
Gittin 65b and Maimonides’ commentary to the Mishna
Gittin 2:5), as we shall see below. In Biblical Hebrew, by the way, a bill of divorce is called a
Sefer Kritut (Deut. 24:1-3, Isa. 50:1), literally “Scroll of Cutting.”
The Tosafists (
Gittin 2a) cite Rabbeinu Tam as explaining that a bill of divorce contains twelve lines of text because it is called a
gett (GIMMEL-TET), and the
gematria (numeric value) of the word
gett equals twelve. Some authorities understand the Tosafists to also be explaining why a bill of divorce is called a
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Long before the novel coronavirus made masks a fashionable part of a respectable wardrobe, Jews were wearing masks on Purim. And a thousand years before that, Moses covered his face with a mask because his face shone so brightly after descending from Mount Sinai (see Exodus 34:29-35).
The word the Torah uses in the latter context is â
masveh.â The word early halachic authorities use in reference to masks on Purim is â
partzufim,â which literally means faces (see
Mahari Mintz 17,
Rema to
Orach Chaim 696:8, and Rabbi Yuzpa Shamashâs account of the old traditions of the Jewish community in Worms).