[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> Here's one you didn't list, from MiShulchan Gavohah: 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"!
>

I had always heard this idea, but I recently heard another idea that the
yud came from the missing yud in "v'haish Moshe Anav". The shiur said that
when Moshe called him Yehoshua, he was transferring to him the mesorah of
how to be an anayv.

Kol Tuv,

-- 
Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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