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<font size="+1">I don't really care whether one says geshem or gashem
because they both mean the same thing. The advice to pause a moment
after saying the pausal form gashem and not to pause after geshem
makes sense.<br>
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What has long bothered me is something else. Why do the
"corrected" siddurim who have geshem also have morid hatal with
tal in the pausal form with a kamatz rather than the non-pausal
form, with a patach, as in tal umatar?<br>
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I once saw or heard an explanation but, as it involved mysticism
which is not something I go for, I forgot it. I then posted my
question to the list and someone sent the mystical story. But, I
have forgotten it again.<br>
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Don't bother to enligh</font><font size="+1">ten me because I have
no need to forget a third time. <br>
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But my question still stands. Why is one pausal and the other is
not when the following words are the same.<br>
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David<br>
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