[Avodah] text of Alenu

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:24:23PM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: There has been some discussion in the past on the correct text of Aleinu
: see
: http://seforim.blogspot.com/2013/09/le-tacen-olam-establishing-correct-text.html
: for an in depth discussion of Le-Tacen Olam

Three unrelated thoughts:

1- As I already wrote in prior iterations, lesaqein olam (w/ a quf) fits
"leha'avir gelulim... veha'elilim karos yekareisun" no less than lesakein
(w/ a kaf) would fit "vekhol benei vasar", etc...

(This is a discussion which highlights the advantage of avoiding false
homonyms by using "q" for quphs.)

2- How does either fit the "be-" in "bemalkhus Shakai"? At least "repair
the world using G-d's Sovereignty" has a meaning. One can't establish
the world using in, as the world has been established already. One can
talk of "establish the world into G-d's Sovereignty", almost ... it's
weird grammar. But then the other alternative, that Hashem's Melukhah
is a tool for repair, isn't glatt smooth reading either.

3- In any case, whichever was the original... Once you concede that
"lesaqein" appears in numerous rishon-approved texts (e.g. Machzor
Vitri), then you have established (pun intented, sorry) the idea's
acceptability. One doesn't need the antiquity of being the first nusach
to prove an idea is Jewish rather than an error.

And you may have noticed I tend to post versions of #3 in every discussion
of historical analyses of Judaism. This comment is a sibling to my
assertion that it's up to a halachicist, not a historian, to decide
whether more information about what a kezayis /was/ has halakhah lemaaseh
impact on what a kezayis /is/.

GCT!
-Micha

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