Rabbinic Criticism of Popular Use
[Similarly,] we learned [in a baraita that] R. Ishmael ben Eleazar says: On account of two sins, ignoramuses [‘amei ha-’arets] die: because they call the Holy Ark [simply] ark, and because they call the synagogue the house of the people.
Translation adapted from the Noé Edition of the Koren Talmud Bavli.
Notes
Words in brackets appear in the original translation.
Credits
From Koren Talmud Bavli, Noé Edition, trans. Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2019). Accessed via the William Davidson digital edition, sefaria.org. Adapted with permission of Koren Publishers Ltd.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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