[Mesorah] Shalom aleikhem

[MPoppers at kayescholer.com]

REMT responded to RSZB:
> Third-person address is, I believe, the marker of respect in
Tanach and the g'mara (Yavo hamlech, Mar hu d'amar). Where do we find
the plural used in this manner? <
Or, to put it another way, we find the third person being used but not the
second person.

> (English, of course, is the most respectful of all languages:
second person singular has been eliminated completely, leaving only
the plural "you.") <
A guten Shabbes, y'all! :-)

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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