<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp3daa4d37yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I did not relate to the Aramaic of the Gmara, but to Daniel, Ezra, Onkelos, Targum Yonatan, etc.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp3daa4d37signature"><div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">Aharon Gal<div>201-414-7190</div></div></div></div>
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On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 05:05:52 PM EDT, Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org> wrote:
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<div>On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:07:19PM -0400, Micha Berger via Mesorah wrote:<br clear="none">> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 04:05:14PM +0000, galsaba--- via Mesorah wrote:<br clear="none">> > 1. I have a question about the word "malka" with Alef at the end. Is<br clear="none">> > it always "HaMelech", or it is sometimes just "Melech"?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Hebrew: Melekh / Malkhah<br clear="none">> Aramaic: Malka / Malkesa<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I came into this thinking Aramaic also has a hei hayedi'ah.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But it doesn't, the "-a" suffix is the definite article. What an<br clear="none">incredible thing for me not to have noticed all these years. I started<br clear="none">learning gemara in 1975.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thank you so much!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But nw the reverse question, why would something get the -a suffix if<br clear="none">it wasn't a ha- situation in Hebrew?<div class="ydp8e04f02eyqt8964179063" id="ydp8e04f02eyqtfd56225"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tir'u baTov!<br clear="none">-Micha</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Micha Berger Man can aspire to spiritual-moral greatness<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.aishdas.org/asp</a> which is seldom fully achieved and easily lost<br clear="none">Author: Widen Your Tent again. Fulfillment lies not in a final goal,<br clear="none">- <a shape="rect" href="https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF</a> but in an eternal striving for perfection. -RSRH<div class="ydp8e04f02eyqt8964179063" id="ydp8e04f02eyqtfd98969"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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