[Avodah] Onkelos on the word "es"

[Simon Montagu]

Rav Refael Posen has a long note on this in his "Parshegen" (available
online at onkelos.alhatorah.org). tl;dr -- it's for aesthetic stylistic
reasons

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM Akiva Miller via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> .
> I just noticed that in Shmini 11:13-19, Onkelos usually leaves the word
> "es" (aleph tav) untranslated. I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any
> idea why he generally translates it (as "yas", yod tav) in almost the whole
> Chumash, but not here?
>
> Akiva Miller
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