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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Joseph Kaplan <A href="mailto:jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com">jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>>> Re zeicher and zecher. My brother-in-law, Prof. Jordan
Penkower of Bar Ilan University wrote an extensive article proving that the
correct pronunciation is zeicher. .... So I asked him whether he
would read it only that way (zeicher) on Parshat Zachor. "Of course not,"
he replied; "what do facts have to do with minhag Yisrael?" And sure
enough, he read it both ways.<BR><BR>Joseph Kaplan</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>It's not much of a "minhag Yisrael" if you ask me. I doubt if anyone
here older than fifty ever heard it read both ways in his youth.
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<DIV>Of course I am defining "minhag" as "the way we've always done it" or "the
way it's been done for a long, long time." </DIV>
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<DIV>A different way of defining minhag is "the way most people do it
now." I guess in that sense, reading the pasuk twice is now minhag
Yisrael. It shows how a practice adopted by a small group can spread
widely and be adopted by almost everyone within a fairly short time,
obliterating even the memory that there ever was a different practice within a
generation or two. Not that it makes any difference to me if the baal
korei wants to read the pasuk twice. BTW I don't remember them reading
pesukim from Megillas Esther twice either, when I was young, but wouldn't swear
to that. Memory is so malleable!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV>
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