[Mesorah] Another term

[Yitzchak M. Gottlieb]

On Jun 5, 2018, at 15:49, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Another term that does not go back a long time is "אנ'ש/אנשי שלומנו".  I have seen the term first used by the Alter Rebbe of Chabad in some of his letters.  If anyone knows of earlier sources, I would appreciate hearing about them.

At the risk of stating the obvious (a hobby of mine :):  While I don’t know of a source for the third person, the second person appears a number of times in תנ״ך as in עובדיה א׳ ז, and the first person singular in תהילים מ״א. It seems a natural extension.

Zuki

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