[Avodah] "Zeh Keli v'anveihu Elokei avi va'arom'menhu"

Richard Wolberg cantorwolberg at cox.net
Wed Jan 23 03:56:41 PST 2008


Michael Poppers wrote:
Eloqim is a plural form, but "avi" is singular and thus b'pashtus can't
refer to "our parents," else the word in the Torah should have been
"avosai."

It was meant in the collective sense. Since masculine gender is used  
often to refer to both, so that was the reason I wasn't grammatically  
exact.
ri
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