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[cellio]

Request to brain trust:

I'm looking for information on the "eitz chayim" passage in the torah-reading liturgy, starting with its textual source (dang, didn't bring a concordance). I'm interested in its liturgical history. Was it an earlier or later addition? It's universal in Ashkenazi nusach; what about others? Any other interesting tidbits?

Yes, I hope to get to the campus library tomorrow, but who am I to turn down any parallel processing that might be forthcoming?

Thanks.

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[cellio]

The source text in Proverbs doesn't refer to the torah being a tree of life; it refers to wisdom. Obviously the sages connected the two; any thoughts on where the interesting classical commentaries are? (I know I have read same, but library searches so far aren't helping me. Maybe next time there'll be an actual reference librarian to ask...)

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Ah, that one is beyond me. I would imagine that kind of thing being scattered throughout talmudic homily. You'd need a concordance or something similar.