[Avodah] Retzei

[Jonathan Baker]

From: "Moshe Yehuda Gluck" <mgluck at gmail.com>
> *On Fri, March 16, 2007 12:39 pm, Elliott Shevin wrote:
> *: I find the latter awkward; "return the service to... and the fire-
> *offerings?"

> *: Nonetheless, I[STR seeing this construct elsewhere,] with
> *: a subject of a prepositional phrase added after the phrase ends, is used
> *: elsewhere in liturgy and/or Tanach, but can't recall any examples and
> *: would enjoy seeing one or two.
 
> There's at least one other in Tefillah: Hamelech B'chvodo Tamid Yimloch
> Aleinu, V'al Kol Ma'asav.
 
Nope, that doesn't work, because they're both objects of the verb Yimloch:

  1. Al-einu (on us)
  2. Al col ma'asav (on all His works)

Aleinu is just a contraction of "al anachnu".

Micha's example of sun-moon-stars also fails to be this kind of afterthought,
because each object is prefaced by an "et", indicating direct object status
and thus that all three objects are parallel.  Sun and moon get dependent
clauses because they rule something.  It's a little clunky, but not really
an afterthought: The Professor assigned this to Jane, because she is into
nussach, and to Bob, because he likes grammar, and to Bill.

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