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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Gabe Eisenstein <gabe AT cascadeaccess.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yorenu (Isaiah 28:26)
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:45:09 -0400

Gabe,

Who do you think is HIS god, is it also OUR God?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Gabe Eisenstein wrote:

Isaiah 28:26 = /vayisro l'mishpat elohaiv yorenu/

English translations always render something like: "His God
instructs/chastises him to judgment, and teaches him."

My question concerns deriving "teaches HIM" from /yorenu/. I would
think that the translation would be "he will teach US". Yet all the
translations agree. What am I missing?

Second question: in the Socino Talmud (Sanhedrin 105a), the phrase
/elohaiv yorenu/ by itself is translated "Let his God teach us". Here at
least I get the expected "us". But what about the "Let ..."? Why not
just translate "His God will teach us"? How would this difference show
up in Hebrew?

thanks,
Gabe Eisenstein
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