[Avodah] "Es Yom HaShmini Ho'Atzeres Hazeh

D&E-H Bannett dbnet at zahav.net.il
Thu Oct 11 04:22:54 PDT 2007


Three examples were pointed out that a day following a 
holiday is called atzeret.

This gives another possible version: yom hashimini, - 
'atzeret hachag hazeh, i.e., the atzeret of the chag, 
sukkot. (IIRC, this is a suggestion of R' Shlomo Zevin in 
one of his books.)

David 




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