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With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi

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Is the Leiden Manuscript Unique?

The Ushami manuscript is unique in that it was graffit-edan and going to be thrown out. It's hard for us to understand how did early modern people and medieval people thought about their books, he says. Until today, if you will look at all of the European universities and American universities, we can find maybe 60 or 70 complete manuscripts of the Talmud. "It's not a wonder that we don't have others"

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