[Mesorah] Pausal form In Mishnah

D&E-H Bannett dbnet at zahav.net.il
Fri Mar 9 04:28:49 PST 2012


Re:  <<if you're gonna say hageffen fine. But then say eved
and gever.>>

Why make up rules and force everyone to follow them?  What
happened to free choice and different styles?

Dictating rules and enforcing them is what led to incorrect
modifications in Tanakh, addition of metagim, etc. Rules
caused by the invention of ten vowels led to making sh'va'im
nachim into na'im.  and so on and so forth...

Keep away from these dangerous rules -  especially when they
cause changes where the ba'alei mesorah said otherwise.

To quote, or perhaps misquote, Robert Burns: A fig for those
by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast!


Enjoy Shushan Purim,

David





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