[Avodah] Double hey hayedi'ah

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:05:01PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
:>On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:17:32PM +0000, Gershon Dubin wrote:
:>: Lishna deKra;  vehakohen hagadol me'echave.

: >However, that doesn't work without the prepositional phrase "mei'echav.
: >"The kohein who is greater than his brothers". Not "the Chief Kohein" as
: >noun adjective (w/ aforementioned caveats about adjectives).

: See Bamidbar 35:28 -- "ad mot hakohen hagadol".

You're right, I'm making a stupid mistake between noun-adjective, or
descriptive noun list, and semichut. Hakohein hagadol isn't intended to
mean "the priest of the Great One", so both "ha-" make sense.

Similarly "haMelekh haQadosh" can't be "the King of the holy One", but
we knew that already. The discussion of whether haQadosh is a 2nd noun,
like the words "my boss" in "I told John, my boss, ..." or an adjective,
or both because the distinction is false, still stands without my blunder.

GCT!
-Micha

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