If; were it so that; had it been

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If; were it so that; had it been

If; were it so that; had it been

If it were so that..., had it been.

(“Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav: If Israel had kept the first Sabbath, no nation or tongue would have ruled over them… Rabbi Yohanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: If Israel kept two Sabbaths properly, they would be immediately redeemed.” (Shabbat 118b). And similarly: “And Rabbeinu Tam says: Where there is an Aleph at the end of 'ilmale', it means ‘if not’. But where it is written with a Yud—‘ilmalei’—it means ‘if it were’.” (Tosafot Megillah 21a). And also: “And I am confident, if that generation had come to recognize the national literary value of the choice Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the sages among the ‘elite’ would have returned to ‘expound’ even these books, and the Tanakh volume would have had a fourth section.” (Bialik, The Hebrew Book))

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אִלְמָלֵי

Definition (Hebrew)

אִם כָּךְ הָיָה ש..., לוּ הָיָה.

("אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה אָמַר רַב: אִלְמָלֵי שָׁמְרוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל שַׁבָּת רִאשׁוֹנָה לֹא שָׁלְטָה בָהֶן אֻמָּה וְלָשׁוֹן... אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחַי: אִלְמָלֵי מְשַׁמְּרִין יִשְׂרָאֵל שְׁתֵּי שַׁבָּתוֹת כַּהִלְכָתָן- מִיַּד נִגְאָלִים"-שבת קיח ע"ב, וכן:"וְאוֹמֵר רַבֵּינוּ תָּם: דְּהֵיכָא שֶׁיֵּשׁ אָל"ף בְּסוֹף אִלְמָלֵא, רוֹצֶה לוֹמַר: אִילוּ לֹא. וְהֵיכָא דְּכָתִיב אִלְמָלֵי בְּיו"ד- רוֹצֶה לוֹמַר אִילוּ הָיָה"-בעלי התוספות מגילה כא ע"א, וכן:"וּמוּבְטַחֲנִי, אִלְמָלֵי הִגִּיעַ אוֹתוֹ הַדּוֹר לְהַכִּיר אֶת עֶרְכָּם הַסִּפְרוּתִי הַלְּאֻמִּי שֶׁל מִבְחַר הָאַפּוֹקְרִיפִים וְהַפְּסֵידוּאָפִיגְרָפִים, הָיוּ חֲכָמָיו שֶׁב'עֲלִיָּה' חוֹזְרִים וְ'דּוֹרְשִׁים' גַּם אֶת אֵלֶּה הַסְּפָרִים וּבְכֶרֶךְ הַתַּנָ״ךְ הָיָה נוֹסָף עוֹד חֵלֶק רְבִיעִי"-ביאליק/ הספר העברי)

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