[Mesorah] Tir'eh beTov

[Michael Hamm]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Micha Berger wrote, in part:
> Can anyone critique the greeting before my signature? <snip>
>
> I thought it's "Ur'ei betuv Yerushalayim" converted:
> 1- By being made lashon asid instead of tzivui; and
> 2- tuv Y-m is a semichut limiting the goodness to that of YIhQ, whereas
> this is "tov" in general. <snip>
>
> Tir'u beTov!

By your logic, I ould think it should be "Tir'u batov".  "Tuv Y-m" means
"the good...".

But I see someone else has answered, probably with more insight than I can
muster.

A g'zunte vinter,

Michael Hamm, who will ignore critiques of his Yiddish grammar,
              as he does not claim to know any Yiddish
AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis
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