Acknowledgements
I want to acknowledge people who contributed to the content of this work - and to the fact of its existence ;) If your name should be on this list but isn’t, please forgive me: the omission is not intentional.
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Mordechai Goldin - for providing office space and computer equipment when I, as a Yeshiva student, had neither;
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Ilia Pomansky - for encouraging this work from its beginning in in 1991 and on;
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my wife Nina - for listening to my wild ideas, for her patience, and for help with math;
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my daughter Menucha Rochel - for assistance with the translation;
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Rabbi Michael Koretz - for stimulating discussions during our visit to Israel in 2005, encouragement, and extensive research into customs of Torah/Haftarah reading;
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Dr. Michael Partensky - for encouragement and advise;
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Dr. Peter Ofman - for asking questions that prodded me to revive this project in 2011, after years of hiatus;
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Aron Matskin - for a discussion during his visit on Rosh Chodesh Mar Cheshvan 2012;
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Rabbi Chaim Prus - for causing me to investigate which number does the year of Creation has - 0, 1 or 2;