[Avodah] Pronunciation of ויהי

[Zvi Lampel]

    for 50+ years I pronounced vayhi with a sh'va na, but as
    Chazal note it's VAY HEE no sh'va na...The all-too-ubiquitous
    "Vayechi", with a sheva nach and three syllables, is an error.
    Rather, it has a sheva na and only two syllables: "Vaychi" or "Vaichi".

Where is this Chazal? (And just a note that technically, while in English the Va-ye-chi pronunciation would be considered three syllables, Hebrew dikduk considers the sh'va na part of the following syllable, not a separate one. So it would still be considered a two-syllable word, just as "Sh'ma," or b'nee," for example, are considered one-syllable words.)

Zvi Lampel

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