I've been trying to pay attention to these paragraph markings as I go through the weekly parsha this year. I've noticed several parshiyot ending with semi-paragraph breaks that are treated as new-line breaks in the Torah scroll when the new parsha begins. Are these actually semi-paragraph breaks or full breaks? The result changed the way I think about the way we view the start and end of certain important segments in the Torah.
I dont' know how consistent these divisions are in different manuscripts or how they relate to what we see in a Torah scroll. I wonder whether Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah doesn't lay out these spacings precisely, the way he says how many lines certain passages of poetry must have? … Checking a Tikkun, I see that ויצא begins after a ס. I had never tuned into that before.
I've been trying to pay attention to these paragraph markings as I go through the weekly parsha this year. I've noticed several parshiyot ending with semi-paragraph breaks that are treated as new-line breaks in the Torah scroll when the new parsha begins. Are these actually semi-paragraph breaks or full breaks? The result changed the way I think about the way we view the start and end of certain important segments in the Torah.
I dont' know how consistent these divisions are in different manuscripts or how they relate to what we see in a Torah scroll. I wonder whether Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah doesn't lay out these spacings precisely, the way he says how many lines certain passages of poetry must have? … Checking a Tikkun, I see that ויצא begins after a ס. I had never tuned into that before.