[Avodah] Pronunciation of Hashem's Name

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 03:30:55AM +0000, matthewjmiller07 at gmail.com wrote:
:                   One opinion, brought down by the Be'er Heitiv from
: the MA from the Bach says some pronounced Hashem's name with a tzerei.

The Bach says (as is quoted verbatum in the MA) "miqtzasan qorin bepatach,
umiqtzasan qorin notin letzeirei". Not quite a full tzeirei. Continuing
the Bach: "vekhein minhag haAshkenazim." In any case he says it's pashut
from how the word is written when written out (not as a replacement for
Havayah) "shetzarikh liqroso bepatach".

Note the MB wants you to be maqpid to make that a chataf-patach, not
a full patach.

:                             Also, in what other ways were different
: communities acustomed to pronounce Hashem's name (e.g. some speak of a
: shva na instead of a chataph patach under the alif in Hashem's name)?

A chataf patach is a kind of sheva na. Alef, hei and ches can't take a
sheva na, probably because it's too much silence between the letter and
the sheva, so the sheva instead gets "colored" by the neighboring vowel.

So I don't think sheim adnus would ever take a sheva na rather than a
patach.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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