[Avodah] tree of knowledge of good and evil

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R' Lipman Phillip Minden wrote:


>>I understood it  similarly, even without a need to change hadda-as to 
houda-as, namely by  understanding "touv vera" as an object rather than the second 
part of a smiches  construction. This isn't common, but possible, I think, 
especially if you  consider that da-as is (or is similar to) a verbal form. 
Compare the English  equivalents - "tree of knowledge good and bad" doesn't work, 
but for a verbal  form that doubles as a noun it works: "tree of the knowing of 
good and bad" =  "tree of knowing good and bad".<<


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Except that in Hebrew the word "es" appears before the object of a  verb.  So 
if tov vara were the object of the verb lada'as,  it  would have to say "eitz 
hada'as es tov ve'es ra" or "eitz hada'as es hatov ve'es  hara."




--Toby  Katz
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