[Mesorah] Lashon Tanach vs. Lashon Hazal

[Seth Mandel]

You call it guts, I call it temerity, you say shevach, I say sh'voch, you 
say potayto, I say potahto, that makes the diqduq world go 'round...


>From: "D&E-H Bannett" <dbnet at zahav.net.il>
>To: "Ira L. Jacobson" <laser at ieee.org>
>CC: mesorah <mesorah at aishdas.org>
>Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Lashon Tanach vs. Lashon Hazal
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:32:20 +0300
>
>Re:  <<Ashkenazi blessings (e.g., borei peri hagafen) and
>Sefardi blessings (borei peri hagefen)>>
>
>
>This is not a Ashkenazi vs. Sefaradi thing. Old Ashkenaz
>siddurim
>also had hagefen.  The first appearance  of hagafen (that I
>know about) is in the siddur of R' Shabbetai Sofer in the
>early 1600's.  His accurate siddur has many corrections and
>they were usually accepted by later Ashkenaz siddurim.
>
>I suppose he decided that at the end of a sentence one
>should use a pausal form and had the guts to make the
>change.
>
>
>
>
>kvh"t,
>
>David
>
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