[Mesorah] S. Baer on Shelo Assani Nochri

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

RRW: <<< I'm not sure Goy is being deemed "inappropriate". The problem AIUI is its inherent ambiguity, and that "safah V'rurah" trumps in this instance. >>>

Where is the ambiguity? Baer himself conceded that <<< Hazal regularly called a Gentile "Goy" as Radak wrote in Sh'roshim "Goy" >>>

The ambiguity only exists for one who insists that the language is not allowed to change over time. Such a person would see a bracha thanking Hashem "for not making me a nation", and get confused.

Frankly, I'd get confused too: I'm not a nation, I'm an individual!

Akiva Miller

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." (Lewis Carroll, Throught The Looking Glass)

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