[Avodah] trop issue

[Elazar M. Teitz]

     RSaul Z. Newman cited http://parsha.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-trup-alternation-in-yisachar.html, explaining the different trop on Binyamin, Naftali and Yissachar as a function of its syllable construction, and commented, "i would  like  to think there is a more esoteric pshat , than just  a syllable  count....anyone  seen one ?"

     Nothing esoteric; the phenomenon isn't restricted to this parsha.  E.g., in the listing of the mishpachos for the purpose of nachala, in Parashas Pinchas, we find that most names have a zakeif gadol (a few have r'vi'i), but kadma-katan is found on exactly those names which have the same syllable structure as the three sh'vatim: Areili, Yachl'eil,  Asrieil, Malkieil and Yachtz'eil. In the second and last of these examples, the sh'va na counts as a syllable.

     Lest one think that the reason in the Pinchas list is the presence of the theophoric suffix, N'mueil also has the suffix, but because it has a different syllable structure, it doesn't get a kadma-katan.

     BTW, shouldn't this be a Mesorah topic, rather than an Avodah one?

EMT

     
 
 

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