[Mesorah] Tenollanu?

[Yitzchak M. Gottlieb]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Yitzchak M. Gottlieb wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Yitzchak M. Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 7:08 AM, David E Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> Yesterday in shul, the baal korei, who was reading with modern  
>>> Israeli pronunciation, read (27:4) "tenoh lanu achuzah betokh  
>>> achei avinu."  While my fellow gabbai and I did not correct him,  
>>> many people thought that what they heard sounded more like "tenu  
>>> lanu achuzah" rather than "tenah lanu achuzah," and the rav asked  
>>> him to begin the next aliyah from the beginning of the perek, so  
>>> as to "correct the mistake."  The baal korei then explained that  
>>> he had not accidentally read "tenu," but rather had intentionally  
>>> read "tenoh," since the dagesh in the lamed closes the previous  
>>> syllable, so the kamatz must be a kamatz katan (as if it were one  
>>> word, "tenollanu").
>>>
>>> The baal korei in question is the brother (yblct"a) of R'  
>>> Mordechai Breuer z"l, and is quite knowledgeable in these matters  
>>> himself.  The rav of the kehilah, also a seasoned baal korei, said  
>>> that he couldn't think of any reason why the baal korei was not  
>>> correct, but that he had never heard it read that way before.
>>
>> As a comment, the reasoning given seems to me to be insufficient.  
>> According to that reasoning any time a דגש חזק (dagesh hazak)  
>> would appear due to a דחיק (d'hik) or אתי מרחיק (ati  
>> merehik) that would imply that the previous קמץ (kamatz) is  
>> חטוף (hatoof).  The best example would be ארצה כנען  
>> (artzah k'na`an), which I've never understood was to be pronounced  
>> with a קמץ חטוף (kamatz hatoof).
>
> As pointed out to me off list, the example that I gave was for אתי  
> מרחיק (ati merehik) while the item in question was a דחיק  
> (d'hik) or a standard מוקף (mukaf).  I'm looking for a better  
> example.

Perhaps a better example would be נתנה-לי (nat'na-li) (B'reshit  
3:11).  (Of course one could argue that the ba'al koreh in question  
would pronounce that the same as above.)

Zuki

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