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A belated follow up to RDC's explanation here:<br><br>
In sunnary, I asked the following:<br><br>
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<dd>I'm trying to figure out: in a pasuk such as 3:2, which reads, in
part:<br><br>
<dd>"v'zarko b'nei aharon ha'kohanim es-hadam
al-hamizbeach"<br><br>
<dd>why the words "ha'kohanim es-hadam" are connected with a
darga/tevir<br><br>
<dd>I would have thought that "b'nei aharon hakohanim" would be
one sub-group -- i.e., a mafsik on hakohanim.<br><br>
<dd>I'm clearly missing something, because we see essentially the same
thing in 3:8 and 3:11<br><br>
</dl>RDC answered:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The telisha ketana on
"benei" and the kadma on "Aharon" are also
"mesharetim," just like the darga on
"hakohanim." So the phrase that's being connected as one
subgroup is "benei Aharon hakohanim es hadam," which is perhaps
a bit easier to understand than just "hakohanim es hadam" being
such a subgroup.</blockquote><br>
That helps me understand it. But it still leaves one question
unanswered: still: why not separate b'nei Aharon hakohanim from
hadam?<br><br>
Off-line, R Seth Mandel answered that one:<br><br>
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<dd>For that you have to step back and consider the options. The whole
clause ends with a kesar, and so the subsection, ending with saviv, ends
with a melekh, the tip'cha under hamizbeach. The next section ends
therefore with a mishneh, the t'vir under hadam.<br><br>
<dd>The only mafsiq lower than a mishneh is a shalish, like the pazer
under vzar'qu. If there were to be two shalishim in a row, the
first one would be the major break and the second subsidiary to it.
Such is not the case; the V in VSO structure is not any more of a break
than the S or the O. So you would need something subsidiary to a
shalish. There ain't no such something that is a mafsiq. The
only subsidiary to a shalish is a m'sharet. Which is what there
is. QED.<br><br>
</dl>RSM, here, highlights a rule about trop that I had forgotten.
When there are two breaks of the same level, the second is subsidiary to
the first one.<br><br>
Thanks, all!<br><br>
-- Sholom<br>
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