[Mesorah] She'ata / Sha'ata

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re: RRW's  <<Indeed there are differing techniques WRT hataf 
patach vs. Sh'va na with Heidenheim on one extreme, GRA and 
R M Breuer on the other, and EG Koren in the middle 
somewhere.>>

Heidenheim's hatafim are influenced by R' Yekutiel Hakohen 
ben Yehuda's "'Ein Hakorei".

Koren is based mainly on Heidenheim.

R' Mordekhai Breuer has less hatafim. In this he follows the 
Leningrad codex. (My feeling, without proof, is that R' 
Breuer, a Yekke who heard barAkhu and hallAluya in his 
youth, wanted to avoid adding to the Yekke custom of making 
of a hataf patach into a full patach by removed them where 
they were not in a guttural.)

The Keter itself and R' Menachem Cohen in the Bar Ilan 
reconstituted Keter, have more hatafim.

What is important here is not the abundance or lack of 
hatafim but the words of the accepted decision maker, R' 
Aharon ben Asher. "Ein ladavar hazeh shoresh ki im birtzon 
hasof'rim".  As the change of a sh'va na' to a hataf does 
not change the pronunciation, it has no roots. Sof'rim who 
want to warn the reader that the sh'va is na', add the 
patach symbol next to it. Other sof'rim don't bother. None 
added it in words repeated often and that everyone knows, 
e.g. the sh'va alone in shem havaya with nikkud of shem 
adanut.


k"t,

David