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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Im tashiv miShabbos raglekha, asot chafotzekho b'yom qodshi.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Anything that would come after that would refer to Shabbos as masculine? Feminine?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As you said, there may be an implied yom.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Simon Montagu <simon.montagu@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 14, 2019 2:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mandel, Seth<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Michael Poppers; Ira L. Jacobson; mesorah@aishdas.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] How widespread is ignorance of Hebrew?</font>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 7:30 PM Mandel, Seth via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" id="LPlnk927969" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">WADR, I am not aware of any case where the Hebrew word Shabbos is masculine.</div>
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<div>Isaiah 56:2 "shomer shabbat <b>mehhallelo</b>"</div>
<div>Isaiah 58:13 "Im tashiv mishabbat raglecha ... <b>vechibadto</b>"</div>
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<div>(though these are usually explained as agreeing with an implied "yom")</div>
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