[Mesorah] Nikud on YKVK

[Michael Poppers]

RMH wrote:
> To put it differently, and forgive me if I'm putting words in your 
mouth, 
R'AM, the k'ri is YKVK and has no n'kudos; the k'siv is adnus and has a 
chataf-patach.  So a sh'va never comes into the picture at all. <
Forgive me for throwing my belated tuppence into the discussion, but I 
always thought the yud had a sh'va because that was the way the 
Tetragrammaton (the "sheim ham'forash" of our Yamim Noraim davening) was 
pronounced.  Now please ignore what I just wrote, as RDB's educated 
explanation is, as always, the iqqar.

> A tangentially related question that someone brought to my attention 
recently:  The Minchas Shay on "hal-Hashem" (in Haazinu) seems to me to be 

citing two opinions: one, that it's pronounced with a sh'va nach under the 

lamed and a chataf patach under the aleph (how most baale k'ria pronounce 
it, I think), and, two, that it's pronounced with a sh'va nach under the 
lamed and a sh'va na (!) under the aleph.  Am I reading that opinion 
wrong?  Has anyone heard anyone actually read it that way? <
What RMH calls two opinions sound like the same one opinion, i.e. the 
first syllable is "hal" (as RMH writes, "with a sh'va nach under the lamed
") and the remainder of the word is pronounced as sheim adnus, "adoNOY" 
(as RMH writes, "a chataf patach under the aleph"/"a sh'va na (!) under 
the aleph").  IIRC, the opinion quoted by MSh b'sheim RaMaH (perhaps an 
ancestor of RMH :)) is saying that the first letter (which is written in a 
seifer Torah "by itself") is read as if it was a word unto itself and that 
the remainder of the word in 5-32:6 is read as one would normally read it 
if it was a word unto itself, i.e. "ladoNOY," with a patach under the 
lamed and the aleph not pronounced, and FWIW, this opinion of Heidenheim 
is followed by minhag Frankfurt, as heard by the undersigned in 
KAJ/"Breuer's."

All the best from
Michael Poppers * Elizabeth, NJ, USA
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