[Avodah] Answered tefilot

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:01:50PM +0200, D&E-H Bannett wrote:
> Re: The comment on melekh ozer umoshi'a umagen <<A list would either have 
> a vav before all but the first word, or only before the last one.>>

> Hebrew usage is not the same as English. Note the listing in the Torah of 
> the names of the five daughters of Tzlofchod ben Hefer.  Every time with 
> different vav's. none following the modern English rules.

An "and" before all but the first word wouldn't be modern English either.

But doesn't the vav before veNo'ah group her with Makhlah and Chaglah,
Milkah and Tirtzah in a second group? I seem to recall that there was
a medrash explaining why the daughters were split into two lists.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha