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<div dir="ltr">Layla is never feminine. It is from a form like *laylay, and the qomatz he at the end is unstressed, not a feminine ending. That is also the basis of the form Lele, as in lele p’sahim; it is not the s’mikgut of the plural, which is Lelot, with
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<div class="null" dir="auto">On April 14, 2019 at 11:10:34 AM EDT, Michael Poppers via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org> wrote:<br class="null">
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...and I'm sure RSM (to whom I wish a r'fua shleima b'qarov!) is familiar w/ at least two of them: "hagadol" is a reference to (a) the end of the haftara; and (b) grownups (IINM, RAM quoted the S'fas Emes on this in this past week's JEC [of Elizabeth, NJ] parasha
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As opposed to, say, "layla", yet we say "Mah nishtana halayla hazeh...", and I don't think the phrase was created by someone ignorant in grammar.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" nop="gmail_attr" class="null">On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ira L. Jacobson via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" class="null">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br class="null">
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<div class="null">"The Shabbos preceding Passover is traditionally known as Shabbos HaGadol — the Great Shabbos."<br class="null">
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As you all know, that is not what the Hebrew means The great Shabbos would be haShabbos haG'dolah.</div>
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There are many explanations, such as the drasha is given by a gadol. And hence Shabbat is in nismakh, with a patah under the bet.<br class="null">
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