[Avodah] Leining and Transitive Verbs

[Stuart Feldhamer]

RJM:

A couple of months back, I got into a leining dispute centered over Shmos
10:17.  The ba'al kri'ah, who did not distinguish between patach and komatz,
read "sa na chaTAsi ach ha-pa'am", instead of "sa na chataSI ach ha-pa'am".
I argued that the phrase required correction, as the ba'al kri'ah read
"Please bear/forgive; I have sinned this time", rather than "Please forgive
my sin, this time", while another mispaleil argued that since "sa" is a
transitive verb that must carry an object, the effective reading that I
suggested was impossible, so that the ba'al kri'ah's reading was merely
sloppy, and did not change the meaning of the passuk.  (He also argued that
the ba'al kri'ah wasn't such a skilled leiner, so deserved more leeway, but
that strikes me as being a more dubious argument.)

 

If it helps, I think you are clearly right. What I especially don't
understand is that in the time that you had that argument, couldn't the baal
korei have gone back 10 times? (Maybe that discussion happened after the
fact?)

 

Stuart

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