[Avodah] Q re last night's RYReisman shiur

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 11:04:19AM -0500, Poppers, Michael wrote:
: This past motzoei Shabbos, RYReisman... quoted Rabbeinu Bachyei on a
: rafeh evoking l'shon rakkah & a malei evoking l'shon qasheh (re
: [degeishim]) and re his'or'rus (re [dots on top of words in Chumash]))
: and then spoke of the "oneness" of the n'qudah.
...
: ... if the n'qudah represents "oneness," shouldn't words which represent
: how H' operates accordingly _have_ d'geishim rather than be rafeh?

I think there is a more fundamental problem that leads to RMP's question.
Rafeh is in contrast to qasheh. Rachamim is not in contrast to Yichud.
Thus, RMP's observation: when one is speaking of Hashem acting bemidas
harachamim, one can argue that both rafeh should be used for Rachamim
and the dageish should be used for Unity.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha