[Mesorah] Fw: karva shenas hasheva

[D&E-H Bannett]

Two weeks ago, I posted "a fews add-ons" on the korva/kar'va 
thread.

As second person, past tense has a meteg in the first 
syllable in most chumashim, I tried to confuse and arouse a 
response by pointing out that
<< the Cohen-Keter CD does not have a meteg in the shin of 
kar'va sh'nat hasheva.  Everyone else does.>>

I failed. Nobody on the list thought it surprising that the 
Keter-CD is different from all "normal" chumashim. But, 
perhaps I did make a bit of confusion. So, in Elul I am 
doing teshuva and now have to point out the facts. This is 
not an isolated case or a typo. It is the shita of the 
CD-Keter and is also completing the work of R' Menahem de 
Lonzano, the Ohr Torah, in removing the numerous, 
"incorrect" "meteg lachamor" that some Ashkenazim had added 
to the Tanakh.

As an example, take the word hay'ta (she was) which appears 
quite often.  It appears 74 times without a meteg and only 
three times with a meteg (Breishit 29:17,  Shmuel B' 29:17, 
and Divrei Hayamim B'  13:2.


kvh"t,

David