[Mesorah] eloke avi avraham

[Yisrael Dubitsky]

Just a note on the note:
IIRC, in a recent article Prof. Richard Steiner showed that the probably
original vocalization for the vowel is kamets (segol under the mem) as in
kamets pimakh.

Yisrael Dubitsky

On 11/19/07, Michael Hamm <msh210 at math.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> In the leining this past Shabas afternoon, we had
>    eloke avi avraham veloke avi yitchak
> and also
>    hatzileni na miyad achi miyad esav
> .  Both "avi"s and the "achi" have a kamatz gadol.  In the shul I was in,
> the baal k'ria, who read with an Ashk'nazi accent (differentiating kamatz
> gadol from patach), read the first "avi" with a patach or chataf patach.
> I jumped on him, correcting it to a kamatz, as "avi avraham", with a
> chataf patach, is a way of saying "the father of Avraham", i.e. Terach.
> So he re-read it correctly, and read "avi yitzchak" correctly too.  Then,
> when he got to "miyad achi", he read _it_ with a patach or chataf patach
> also.  This time, I didn't correct him: after all, I reasoned, "achi" with
> a chataf-patach, meaning "the brother of", would be meaningless in that
> context, so the misreading doesn't change the meaning of the phrase (and
> it's not even a mistake according to the Israeli pronunciation).  What do
> you all think: was I correct to correct him the first time?  Was I correct
> not to the second?
>
> Happy Chanuka,
>
> Michael Hamm
> AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis
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