Found a complete recording of the entire Samaritan Torah on YouTube by a man named מאיר ששון from Holon. Been listening and following along with Ze'ev ben-Hayyim's transcriptions from 1975. They're virtually identical down to the smallest details. Chills.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3q...
I've been able to place him in Lisbon and Marseilles in 1941, where he worked with Noel Field & Varian Fry to deliver food and medicine (legally and illegally) to Gurs, Les Milles, Rivesaltes, and Récébédou.
I also learned tonight that he was in Algiers in 1944 negotiating with the French Committee of National Liberation for postwar guarantees of refugee treatments. And that he was, for a time, executive secretary of the American branch of the militant antifascist International Free World Assembly.
*His name is מאיר ששוני, my mistake. Would love to know when it was recorded.
Occasionally he departs from the text to recite short prayers not transcribed by ben-Hayyim. I don't know their liturgical functions, but among others, he does a prayer after the death of every patriarch in Tuledåt Ådåm.
Deleted last post because idk how the surviving families would feel, so I'll anonymize. But I've been doing family research and discovered that my great-uncle was involved with the Nimes Committee in 1941, helping some figures knoen to me escape internment camps in unoccupied Southern France. 😲
The vocabulary is strange and limited and repetitive, the syntax is cramped and awkward (and occasionally plain wrong), the pace is frenetic, and the prose style is obscure and not very beautiful. This is my hole and I'm gonna dig it.
(BREAKING NEWS: Zohar Fan Calls Kettle Black)
Hot take I didn't know I had until recently is that Daniel 10-12 might be the worst reading experience in the whole Tanakh for a Hebrew reader
A hidden Ea-Nasir joke in the game Dune Awakening
Hava Bas-Idis
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Hava Bas-Idis
Hava Bas-Idis
Hava Bas-Idis
Now published online...
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