[Avodah] Changing Havarah

[Michael Kopinsky]

Thank you for the correction.  (And for a good response to any
Israelis who make a fuss about this.)

On 1/1/07, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> 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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> Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
> zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
>                        	                          - Clarence Thomas
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