[Mesorah] reish [was:Chataf Patach]

[Noah Witty]

Thanks for the correction (I would not knowingly start up with something 
called "Sefer haYitzirah.") The puzzlement is: What would a reish sound 
like with and without the dagesh?

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, November 26, 2008 4:11 pm, Noah Witty wrote:
> :> The seifer haYetzirah (pereq 4, repeated in every "mishnah" from 1
> :> to
> :> 6) speaks of sheva kefulos -- bg"d kfr"t. 4:5 makes a point of
> :> saying
> :> "sheva velo sheish, sheva velo shemoneh, and then begins a series of
> :> things that come in sevens (and I presume paralel). 4:1 describes
> :> the
> :> kefulos as heaving a "tavnis rakh veqasheh, gibor vechalash". So
> :> there
> :> is a reish
>
> : whoa! raish is not kaful; the /beged-kefet/ are kefulim, n'est-ce pas?
>
> Non seulement ces six. (I don't know French; that's from
> translate.google.com.)
>
> I just quoted the Seifer haYetzirah, I didn't give my own opinion.
> Whether by Avraham avinu or Rabbi Aqiva or even "just" deVei R' Aqiva,
> it's not something I would dismiss without a maqor. The book clearly
> states that reish is kaful. It's listed 5 times, "bege"d kapore"t" and
> counted out to be 7 kefulot! (mnemonic's vowelization is mine, of
> course)
>
> BTW, I erred, there are 14, not 2, reish degushot: Shemu'eil I 1:6,
> 10:24, 17:25, Melakhim II 6:32, Yirmiyahu 39:12, Yechezqeil 16:4 (x2),
> Chavaquq 3:13, Tehillim 52:5, Mishlei 11:21, 14:10, 15:1, Shir
> haShirim 5:2, Ezra 9:6.
>
> Someone more knowledgeable than I could check if they behave more like
> the dageish is qal or chazaq. Shemu'eil I 1:6 is "harre'imah",
> following a hei hayedi'ah. 10:24 is "harre'iseim" with a hei
> hashe'eilah, and 17:25 is as well. A pattern?
>
> SheTir'u baTov!
> -micha
>
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