[Avodah] Geshem or Gashem?!

[Mandel, Seth]

From: Professor L. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 8:01 AM

>From  https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/4903

>> On Shemini Atzeres, as per the Mishna's instruction...

With all due respect for the many great g'dolim who weighed in on this
issue and came up with explanations about what the proper pronunciation
should be, they came late in the game, after grammarians had already
started changing the pronunciation.

The fact is that all ancient vocalized mss. (from the time of the
rishonim) have geshem. All that I have ever seen do, whether S'farad,
Ashkenaz, Italian, or Teimani. There are hundreds. And so there can be
no reasonable argument about what the Rishonim said.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel