[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Zev Sero]

On 12/06/2012 8:28 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> Here's one you didn't list, from MiShulchan Gavohah:

Surely "Gavoah".

> The yud added to
> Yehoshua's name is "well known" to have been borrowed from the one
> dropped out of "Sarai" when she became "Sarah". But where did the two
> dots for the sheva under the yud come from? The segol from "ben"!

This implies that nekudot are misinai, which used to be universally
believed.



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