[Avodah] Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:30:48PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: The repsonses baruch hu and baruch shemo are ancient
: Look at baruch she'amar and the article in the HERTZ siddur

But there it's a clear progression, describing G-d in ever more
comprehensible terms.

Look also at the progression of
    sheAmar veHayah haOlam
    Omeir ve'Oseh -- we introduce "asiyah", which people do too
    Gozeir umQayeim -- now, the statement isn't itself the action, He
	descrees and fulfils that decree
    Meracheim al haaretz
    Meracheim al habrios -- less cosmic than the previous
    Meshaleim sechar tov lirei'av -- and in the previous line it was
	everyone

It could well be that the problem is in the connective, without which
"barukh shemo" could be considered a rephrase of "barukh Hu".

OTOH, Tehillim has keifel lashon with a vav hachibur all the time. Not
always a paraphrase of exactly the same idea, but I don't know Tehillim
by heart to say that there is /no/ instance of a keifel lashon with a
vav in the middle.

Unfortunately, no one actually substantiated what I heard besheim haGra
with a source. So the whole thing could be legend.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger             Rescue me from the desire to win every
micha at aishdas.org        argument and to always be right.
http://www.aishdas.org              - Rav Nassan of Breslav
Fax: (270) 514-1507                   Likutei Tefilos 94:964