[Avodah] Changing Havarah

[Zev Sero]

Michael Kopinsky wrote:

> Since pretty much every havara has duplicates for some letter or vowel,
> examples such as these are numerous.  "Hayom harath olam", in ashkenazis,
> means "Today is the destruction of the world." 

No, it doesn't.  Because (unlike many Temanim), we do distinguish between
patach and segol.  Nor is it "today He destroyed the world", because we
distinguish between patach and komatz.


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