[Mesorah] Q re RYReisman's 24Nov2007 shiur

[Michael Poppers]

(Please see my earlier post in Avodah Digest V24#74.)

Is "chashmonai" definitely a noun and only a noun just because words like
"Shammai" are nouns?  Assuming (as Baer does in Siddur Avodas Yisrael) that
when this type of word is spelled with an aleph, the aleph is there solely
in order to indicate a patach-yud ending rather than a chiriq-yud ending
(when the word is printed without vowelization), not just nouns have a
patach-yud ending (e.g. Estheir 1:18's "uchdai"), and besides, isn't it
true in general that a noun can also be an adjective (or vice versa), so
can't those who hold by a pronunciation of "chashmonai" hold that it's both
a noun *and* a description of the family's chashivus (and/or its "gift" of
qapdanus), even as those who hold by a pronunciation of "chashmona'i" may
be limited to considering it an adjective?  Thanks.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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