פירוש על ברכות 107:8

Lit. for a world.

Some edd. read "Sadducees"; and they are intended here as they denied the future life. See p. 100.

Lit. "from the world to the world" — two worlds.

Viz. the Tetragrammaton J H W H, usually rendered "the Lord" which the Jews pronounced Adonai. Wiesner, pp. 118 f., conjectures that this is directed against the Samaritans who substituted for JHWH the word ha-Shem "the Name." Hence by using the word Adonai in his salutation, it would be recognised that it was a Jew, not a Samaritan, who was speaking.