The mesorah-tradition tag currently has 79 questions that have not been closed. Most of those concern general Jewish traditions, m'sora, one receives from his forebears or teachers. A few, however, concern the m'sora: the tradition of spellings, vowels, cantillation, etc., on Tanach. (Those are 11290, 11295, 14671, 25884, 33566, 34342, 34806, 37311, and 48256, though I may have missed some.) Which should the tag be used for? or both, as it is now?
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1In my opinion these are both tagworthy topics. They are also not the same thing, so I think there should be two separate tags. – WAF Dec 28 '14 at 23:40
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1@WAF, perhaps post an answer to that effect so that people might up- and downvote it. – msh210♦ Dec 29 '14 at 2:40
Another alternative proposal:
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I think the latter is more specific and immediately understandable to the uninitiated than either mesorah-masoretic-tradition and mesorah-of-tanach.
answered Mar 3 '16 at 16:31
Since these are two tagworthy topics that are distinct but synonyms, they should be split into two different tags:
There's gotta be a better name for the second tag, though. I'd appreciate a counter-answer to that effect.
answered Dec 29 '14 at 20:58
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I'm working on a wording for the second tag....do we need the word "mesorah" in the tag at all? [ancestral-tradition] sounds fine to me..... – MTL Dec 30 '14 at 3:11
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my thought is that otherwise people will make a mistake when they mean mesoretic-tradition.... but i think those are spelled close enough that it's not a big deal. – Charles Koppelman Dec 30 '14 at 3:52
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To clarify: I was suggesting [ancestral-tradition] for the first tag, not the second. ....I don't have any good ideas for wordings, yet. – MTL Dec 30 '14 at 14:34
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As a tweak to Charles Koppelman's answer (as he requested therein), I'd like to suggest we split it into mesorah-ancestral-tradition and mesorah-of-tanach.
