[Mesorah] Sefardic nusach of brachos

[Hayyim Obadyah]

No.  The word 'eres ALWAYS becomes ha'ares with qames when the article is
added.
The same is true of har (mountain), hag (festival), `am (people), par
(bull), and often 'aron (ark). GKC sect. 35o.
Hayyim
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From: mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org
[mailto:mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Meisner
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:18 AM
To: mesorah at aishdas.org
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Sefardic nusach of brachos





On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Hayyim Obadyah <HayyimObadyah at aol.com>
wrote:


The changes in the Hebrew of the Ashkenazic prayerbook to use phonological
rules of Biblical Hebrew took place in the 17th century when a movement
among grammarians to return to the 'purity' of Biblical Hebrew coincided
with an increase in printed prayerbooks over which they had influence.  The
change of geshem to gashem and gefen to gafen were both part of that.  In
hammosi lehem min ha'ares, the word lehem does not occur at the end of a
clause and so it was not changed to lahem.


My second question was regarding the word ha-aretz vs. ha-eretz, not
regarding the word lechem, but modifying my original suspicion based on your
answer, I guess that the bracha on bread was set up using the accented form
ha-aretz rather than the basic form ha-eretz because it was based on a
passuk in Tehillim, while the bracha on wine was set up using the Mishnaic
form, which did not utilize the accented form.  Correct?

Thanks,

Josh

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