## Malbim Ayelet HaShachar Klal 418

###### Malbim Ayelet HaShachar 418:1
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ויש הבדל בקריאת השם. ש'קרא' הבא על קריאת השם שאחריו מלת "את" – מציין קריאת השם העיקרי. וכשאחריו למ"ד השימוש – מציין קריאת שם טפל נוסף על העיקר (אמור ס' קמא)

**Ayelet Hashachar, translated by Betzalel Avraham Feinstein, 2021:**
And there is a distinction with respect to proclaiming/calling something, in that when קרא (proclaim/call) pertains to proclaiming something where afterwards the word את comes – it indicates that the proclaiming is primary. And when afterwards the prefix ל comes – it indicates that the calling is secondary to the actual name that the entity is called, which is primary.

*Leviticus 23:4 says, אלה מועדי יהוה מקראי קדש אשר תקראו אתם במועדם (These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season). By Rule 418, since אתם comes after תקראו, the proclaiming of the appointed seasons is primary.*

*Genesis 1:5 says, ויקרא אלהים לאור יום ולחשך קרא לילה (And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night). By Rule 418, since the prefix ל comes after the verb ויקרא, the calling is secondary to the actual name that light and darkness are called, Day and Night, which are primary⁶⁷⁴.*

footnotes:
⁶⁷⁴ Malbim, HaTorah v’HaMitzvah Emor 141.