<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>Very nice thought.
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The question may be why we don't say "b'rachamim" instead.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Maybe it's because in both cases- and in the other brachot in which we see this-- we are referring to phenomena/entities that are distinctively His and cannot be compared with any human counterpart/equivalent. Our רחמים is not the same as His.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Dov Kramer <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:dovgoldie@cs.com">dovgoldie@cs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I think the chidush is the "atah," addressing Him directly. We revert to addressing Him in third person after that.</div>
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<div>The question may be why we don't say "b'rachamim" instead.<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">And why not ברחמיך, since it follows אתה?</div>
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<div>On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Richard Wolpoe via Mesorah <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:initial">It's pretty clear that if the word "b'rachamav" is not said between the words "B-N-H" and "Yerushalayim" that it should be "bonay," with a tzeirei."</span></div>
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<div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please elaborate </div>
<div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In both cases it seems that BN"H is connected to the following word</div>
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<div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Is this due to Bet vs. Yud?</div>
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