How to Use the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Part 2, the Masorah Notes 

Thank you for all the hard work you put in in these videos. You are awesome!

Shalom (again) Growing up in the Deep South of the USA we were told/warned to never write in our Bible - (I am a “doodler” from birth in books that I read - underlining passages etc)- & that kind of dampened my desire to really read and study the Bible for some time- i find it humorous and comforting that the scribes made notes in the text that we are now reading centuries later ❤ shalom to you shalom to Jerusalem -

Well done, sir. Thank you for helping us to learn more about such an important topic. Shalom!

Just bought my copy of BHS today and your videos helped me A LOT. Thanks!

I LOOOOVE your 2 videos series about the BHS. Great work Rabbi :)

New insights that take a Biblical student to the crux of biblical knowledge,

Thanks , what a great informative video. You are really talented in explaining and summarizing things.

Precisely informative, thank you for this video😊

Thank you very much for sharing. Hope forward what you are going to share here again. Pray that you may get the wisdom from the Lord and serve as sharing what you have known. God bless David.

Thanks! very helpful!

This is a great video, thanks for your work! Still no word on Quinta, huh?

Great guide! Thank you very much sir

Great video!

Todah rabbah, rev Rabbi. This video series was immensely helpful. Even though I had taken Biblical Hebrew for a year in university, I barely had a clue about the Masoretic notes. The course itself barely mentioned them, and in my years of reading Tana''k since then, I have all but ignored them and shied away from my BHS (preferring JPS, Keren Chumash, Reader's Hebrew bible, and a few other editions). This series has invigorated me to study the Masoretic tradition with greater vitality! What I am very surprised by most is: essentially, in order to truly understand the massorah, I must have two additional books in addition to the BHS? The Masorah of BHS guidebook by Kelley, Mynatt, and Crawford + the Masorah Gedolah? I sort of feel cheated that BHS doesn't have that already, and I can't even use it! My question is (and when I was cataloguing at YIVO for a summer, there were a lot of copies of these there): didn't the Mikraot Gedolot include all these notes, or would a reader of those volumes have to refer to additional volumes in order to understand the masorah as well?? B'ezrat hashem

Thanks for this very useful introduction to the Masorah notes, being a non-Hebrew speaker, I've always struggled to understand them, especially the un-pointed notes. I've got the book by Kelly but I still needed a Hebrew teacher/expert to explain these notes, using easy to understand language. Do you have a lesson on understanding the BHS signs? I cannot find Reinhold Wonneberger's, Understanding the BHS critical notes, which seems to be out of print. Shalom.

Finally. Been wondering where's part 2.

excellent. todah rabbah

Great guide!

Hey brother, amazing work. Do you know where I can find the Massorah Gedolah. Iuxta Codicem Leningradensem B19a?

I love your channel! Can you please add subtitles, i speak spanish so it would be helpful :)

The "Mesorah Gedolah" volume - what edition(s) are both considered best and (relatively) widely available?

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם Do you know where I can find a copy of the BHS vol.2 Massorah Gedola (Massorah Magna)?

Quiero estudiar con ustedes, dan clases en español?

Excellent. Does Massorah Gedolah that you are looking at cover the entire Hebrew Bible? Or are there multiple volumes?

Hello, David. May I ask you what is the difference between the "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Edition) Hardcover - May 1, 2007", and the "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) (Hardcover): A Reader's Edition (Hebrew Edition) Hardcover - January 1, 2015" ? Thank you very much.

So I need two more books to use the BHS?

Off by 100,000!! How curious this makes me 😂

Shalom (again) Growing up in the Deep South of the USA we were told/warned to never write in our Bible - (I am a “doodler” from birth in books that I read - underlining passages etc)- & that kind of dampened my desire to really read and study the Bible for some time- i find it humorous and comforting that the scribes made notes in the text that we are now reading centuries later ❤ shalom to you shalom to Jerusalem -