Zoharic Aramaic · Zohar Readers
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
Pedagogical transliterationpataḥ Rabbi Elazar ve-amar: et Shabbetotai tishmoru. Ta ḥazei ...
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
The speaker frame is פתח רבי אלעזר ואמר. The quotation is the Hebrew את שבתותי תשמורו from Leviticus 19:30. The Aramaic exposition resumes at תא חזי and continues through a question-and-answer about when each day’s work and force were disclosed. Typography may distinguish the layers, but the language boundary is established by the words themselves.
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Pedagogical reading guide
Zoharic Aramaic
Aramaic frame: פתח רבי אלעזר ואמר → Hebrew quotation: את שבתותי תשמורו → Aramaic reopening: תא חזי → question: אימתי → answer: ביומא רביעאה → בגין reason
EXAMPLES
Close translation — ‘Rabbi Elazar opened and said: “You shall keep My Sabbaths.” Come and see: in six days the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world, and each day disclosed its work and placed its force in that day. When did it disclose its work and place its force? On the fourth day. Because the first three days were all hidden and were not revealed, when the fourth day came it brought forth the work and force of them all.’
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APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Separate the Aramaic speaker frame, quoted biblical Hebrew, and resumed Aramaic exposition.
A clean internal language switch: Zoharic Aramaic frame → Biblical Hebrew quotation → Zoharic Aramaic exposition.
Copy the exact last word of the speaker frame, the complete verse quotation, and the first word of resumed exposition. Label each language layer.
Frame ends ואמר (Zoharic Aramaic). Quotation: את שבתותי תשמורו (Biblical Hebrew, Leviticus 19:30). Exposition resumes תא חזי (Zoharic Aramaic). The later אימתי / ביומא רביעאה pair is also Aramaic.
Exact bounded unit from Hebrew Wikisource page זהר חלק א ה ב; the full containing block is retained in evidence.
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