[Avodah] Retzei

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, March 20, 2007 9:08 am, Elliott Shevin wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
:> The first one in Tanakh that caught my eye:
:> Es hama'aor hagadol lememsheles bayomve'es hama'or haqaton lememsheles
:> balaylah,ve'es
:> hakochavim. "Ve'es hakochavim" seems much like "ve'ishei yisrael".

: Perhaps, if you figure the kochavim are also "to rule the night" as the
: "smaller luminary" is.

Actually, that's what Rashi (1:16, "hakokhavim") seems to assume: "Since He
reduced the levanah, He made her tzeva large to appease her da'as." Or am I
reading to much into the word tzeva'eha, and by Rashi taking the phrase to be
associated with the previous? Is it relevant that it's "ve'eis" with a
tipchah, as opposed to being fully divided as a third equal in the list?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi