[Avodah] Na'ar - 2 defintions

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

> The naar in the Eldad uMeidad story was Yehoshua,

Tangentially;
The primary defintion of Na'ar is "youth"

However, I saw (many years ago) a second defintion meaning secondary
person; or lieutenant.

EG Re: Avraham: "ushnei ne'arav ito." Yet neither Yishma'el nor Eliezer
were young, merely they held inferior posistions to Avraham. IOW they
were ne'arav juxtaposed to their master.

Benidan didan Yehoshua was relatively a "na'ar" to Moshe, but not a
Na'ar in the absolute sense.

(Sorry, I forgot who said it first)

KT
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