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Are most of the verbs in Kaddish in reflexive form?
The beginning of Kaddish has the words יתגדל ויתקדש - I know that there is a debate whether these words are Hebrew or Aramaic. Regardless, it looks that these words are in the hitpa'el form (I'm ...
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According to the Vilna Gaon, why doesn't Kaddish open with "יתגדל ויתקדש כרעותיה"?
According to the Vilna Gaon, the opening line of Kaddish is very disjointed. So much so, that most people are, ostensibly, mispronouncing one of the words.
Grammatically, it would also work, and it ...
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