[Avodah] zeicher/zecher

[reuven koss]

> Reb Rueven Kos wrote:
>> Regarding the Gra in M"R, Rav Chaim Volozhner is a daas yachid that the 
>> Gra
>> read it with a tzere- most talmidim of the Gra say that he read it with a
>> segol.
>
> Could you please provide references? AFAIK (based on a conversation with 
> Rav
> Mordechai Breuer zal), there were only two players in this disagreement.
> However, the MR was one of those talmidim that moved to Israel, and so the
> Perushim followed the MR. For RMBreuer, the Perushim were the only ones
> justified in following the MR.
>
> --
The Peulas sachir on the M"R says that ken he'idu rabim v'chen shleimim 
(that he read parshas zachor with two segols) ...the gist being over there 
hat all the talmidim heard the Gra read zecher and RC"V heard him read 
zeicher which the p"s says may have happened in his old age.

reuven