[Avodah] THE MISSING "VOV"

Sholom Simon via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Fri Oct 9 05:11:25 PDT 2015


>On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:08:56PM -0400, Cantor Wolberg via Avodah wrote:
>: Has anyone ever noticed in the Sukkot Torah reading, third day of chol
>: hamo?ed, the word "minchatam" does not carry a vav? (29:24, 1st word)

R Micha wrote:

>Shemini Atzeres (pasuq 37) too, but that's a different yom tov.
>
>Other alterations in the mussafim for Sukkos: Most days end
>"veniskah". But day 2 ends "venikeihem", and day 6 ends "unsakheha"
>(with an inserted yud).
>
>I recall that the extra letters are two used and a mem, spelling
>the "mayim" of nisuch hamayim, but I forgot how it worked.

The two extra mems (from day 2 and 6) and the extra yud on day 6 
(un-sacheha rather than v'niska) spell mayim.  (Artscroll's Tikkun 
points that out)

But that still leaves the original question unanswered: what to do 
with and/or why the lack of a vav in 29:24?

-- Sholom




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