[Avodah] Benefits of Davening K'Vosikin

[Prof. Levine]

At 03:10 AM 5/25/2018, Simon Montagu wrote:

>This is one of the things that really grinds my gears too. Placards 
>went up recently on the street corners in my neighbourhood pointing 
>towards one of the local shuls and advertising "tefilla banetz", and 
>I cringe every time I go past.
>
>But I try to be melamed zechut on Am Yisrael. There is a noun "ketz" 
>from the root KTZTZ meaning "end", why shouldn't there be a noun 
>"netz" from the root "NTZTZ" meaning "shining" or "sunrise"? There 
>certainly is such a word meaning "bud", it occurs in Bereishit 40:10 
>in the sar hamashkim's description of his dream and in Hazal.

Isn't modern Hebrew filled with all sorts of new words that are not 
found in TANACH,  so why not this one?

YL

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