[Avodah] L'shana Habaah Biyrushalayim

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Micha
> The SR's point was buttressed by the timing of the declaration, 10 days
> after Rosh haShanah and 15 days after R"Ch Nissan, the Rosh haShanah
> leRegalim. Given that it is said when there was a "year that [just]
> came", it makes more sense to emphasize the word as "haBA'ah", rather
> than "haba'AH" and speaking of the subsequent year (even if we mean
> that mei'eis le'eis).

> There is no such ambiguity WRT "ad Yom haKippurim haba"

Yeahbut
Kinda begs the question + viz:
Why choose an ambiguous phrase and not Simply have the nusach state
"l'shana hazzos Beerushalayim"?

IOW last night when we said "habba" we meant next year, and tonight when
we say habba'ah we mean this year?!?

And to use the "yisrael saba" argument, who before ever learned it as
THIS year? Has it ever been teitched that way?

Of course we talmudists can fit the square pegs into the round holes -
that's what we do! The question is should we? I guess this dovetails
into the area of: "Is pilpul good for the Jews or not?". ;-)

KT
RRW
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