<div dir="ltr">This post sent much earlier in the discussion was blocked. If you got this already I apologize.<div><br></div><div><p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The pair of adjectives 'rav' 'atzum' appears frequently together
in tenach.<span class=""> </span><br>
Often in plural eg Goyim rabim vatzumin. It probably should be understood as a
semantic unit like 'tov ve yafe' or lehavdil 'big and tough' 'rough
and ready'. <span class=""> </span><br>
Shmot 1:9 am bnei yisrael rav veatzum<br>
Yoel 2:2 am rav veatzum<br>
Dvarim 7:1 goyim rabim vatzumin.<br>
Also </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">dvarim 4:38 </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">dvarim 9:1 11:23 </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Dvarim 9:14 zecharia 8:22</span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">See also bemidbar 32:1 mikneh rav ... atzum discussed in Perlman Dapei chug
leTaamei hamikra v 2 # 48</span></p><p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
I am sure that this fact affected the taamin which group rav + atzum
together and the tipecha-mafsik on gadol as pointed out by MP.</span></p>
<p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Here is A similar literal
misunderstanding of a pair of words in the same parasha and relevant to our seder. A pair that should be
understood as one semantic unit and not two: </span></p><p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">'Veanita vamarta' - not two verbs
'answer and say' (because there is no one to answer there). It means ' lift up
your voice and say ' or in better English with one verb
"Proclaim".<span class=""> </span><br>
See mechilta derashbi on this pasuk, mentioned in a mind-blowing tshuva of R David
Zvi Hoffman in Shut Melamed Lehoil chelek gimmel tshuva 65.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(119,119,119)"><a href="mailto:michaelpoppers@gmail.com">michaelpoppers@gmail.com</a>
wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">Thanks, RDBloom (or, as RDBannett might say, "RDB the
younger") -- good point re "rav v'atzum"! I await someone
quibbling with it not being exactly the same as "atzum varav."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">RDBtY also brings up a good point re "v'anisa v'amarta"
(hereafter "</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:fuchsia">AvA</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">"), but there's a history of discussion in Avodah, if not
Mesorah, re the implications for <i>nusach hat'fila</i>. IIRC, that
discussion was relatively heated (a <i>machloqes l'sheim Shamayim</i> :))
re the <i>pisuq</i> in these two locations:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">-- the stanza prior to the pre-Shma threefold-"Qadosh";
and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">-- the phrase prior to "H' Yimloch" in Ma'ariv.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue">I don't want to place words into R'Micha's mouth, but I recall that
he and I were on opposite sides of the discussion then (and I took the
"keep </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:fuchsia">AvA</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:blue"> together" side ;-)).</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><br></div>-- <br>Dov A Bloom<br>
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