[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

>
>  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".
>>
>
> What missing yud?  What makes us think "anav" should have a yud in the
> first place?


The Chumash I have says it's a kri u'ktiv. Written without the Yud but
pronounced with.  Presumably the idea being that since Moshe was an anav,
he didn't want to have to write that sentence, so he was able to remove the
yud, similar to the small alef in vayikra.

-- 
Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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