Timeline for Who is the object in Lecha Dodi?
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| Nov 16, 2011 at 5:09 | vote | accept | Isaac Moses♦ | ||
| Nov 16, 2011 at 1:52 | comment | added | msh210♦ | The masculine is lech, but the imperative often gets a he appended (for what purpose I have no idea), as in "hoshia na... hatzlicha na". (So does the future, as in what @rony quotes, nel'cha, and so does the future-turned-to-past-by-means-of-vav. Both in first person commonly, but IIRC examples in the other persons exist also.) | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 21:51 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Wouldn't the masculine be "leich"? In any case, adding a male object just makes the question even broader. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 18:32 | comment | added | rony | Lecha is masculine. The feminine is Lechi. The second stanza says it explicitly: Towards Shabat lets go. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 18:20 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @msh210, my first assumption would be that they are the same. If you can show a line of interpretation that has them as different, that's fine. Anyway, what gender is "lecha"? | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 17:47 | comment | added | msh210♦ | Oh, you mean in the stanzas. Not in the refrain. Do you have the impression the refrain and the stanzas are addressing the same person (or being)? I haven't. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 14:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/135724061962682368 | ||
| Nov 13, 2011 at 13:59 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @msh210 the imperative verbs are all in feminine gender. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 12:26 | answer | added | avi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 8:20 | answer | added | rony | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 8:16 | comment | added | msh210♦ | Why do you say "female"? | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 5:23 | answer | added | yydl | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 5:17 | history | asked | Isaac Moses♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |