[Mesorah] She'ata / Sha'ata

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In a message dated 2/21/2012 12:20:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com writes:


RTK

«but I will say that my impression is that "lach"  (when addressing a male 
or specifically when addressing Hashem) is influenced  by Aramaic, »

So mah nafshach

why not say v'lach noeh l'hodos,  

Also 

Ki vach botochnu?

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It  gets worse. Hanau revised the nikkud. Why did he leave THESE untouched? 
What  was he thinking?

Shalom and Regards, RRW

 
>>>>>
 
I think it's arbitrary and there isn't a "reason."  A person might use  a 
Yiddish, a Hebrew or an English word interchangeably, just because.
 
The reason, if there is one, may be poetic rather than  grammatical.  At 
the end of  a phrase or sentence a  one-syllable word like lach just sounds 
better, whereas in the  middle of a sentence, "lecha na'eh" and "vecha 
batachnu"  are easier to say and easier on the ear than "lach na'eh" or "vach 
batachnu" --  the two latter cases require a slight pause between two consonants, 
interrupting  the smooth flow of sound.  A pattern of consonant vowel 
consonant vowel is  more pleasing to the ear and easier on the tongue than a 
pattern in which one  word ends in a consonant and the next begins with a 
consonant.  Hence vecha  batachnu is more pleasing than vach batachnu.  
 
But at the end of a phrase or a sentence where this a pause  anyway, it 
doesn't matter whether the last syllable of the phrase ends in a  consonant or 
a vowel, so "mi domeh lach" is just as good as "mi domeh lecha"  poetically 
-- and maybe even better, because ending with a consonant "closes"  the line 
and implies finality  (i.e., this phrase or this sentence is  definitely 
finished).
 
Why Hanau or any redactor would change something or leave it alone -- I  
don't know.
 

--Toby  Katz
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Romney -- good  values, good family, good  hair


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