[Mesorah] Does this interest you

[David and Esther Bannett via Mesorah]

The word haleluhu appears 16 times in the Tana"kh, all of them in 
T'hillim. In fourteen of the occurences, the word hal'luhu is followed 
by a word whose first letter is one of the bg"d kf"t letters.  Without 
going into the intricacies of dikduk, one can say that, in general,if 
the word hal'luhu has a ta'am mafsikthe following bg"d kf"t has a 
dagesh. if the two words are connected by a ta'am m'chabber the bg"d 
kf"t is rafa

Thirteen of the occurences are concentrated in two p'rakim of T'hillim, 
148 and 150.  Four of them in 148, the longer perek and 9 in 150, the 
short last perek of Tehilim.  As these p'rakim are read daily in pesukei 
d'zimra, one doesn't have to be a tillim-zuger to know them.

According to R' Wolf Heidenheim in his mei-iti t'hilim and in all of his 
siddurim, all of the bgd" kf"t have d'geshim and all of the hal'luhu's 
have a ta'am mafsik.

Almost all tanakhim published after the Roedelheim, including 1859 
Shocken mikraot g'dolot(Shlomo Netter), Koren, etc., have one change:  
(Sorry, I don't have an Artscroll to check.) In 148, they have hal'luhu 
khol mal'akhav. And the hal'luhu has a ta'am m'chaber so one can't tell 
which came first, the chicken or the egg.

And now to the modern world with many more available sources: All the 
accurate kitvei yad, including of coursethe Keter and the Leningrad 
codex have two more differences. In 150, we have hal'luhu vigvurotav and 
hal'luhu v'tziltz'lei shama'. Assuming we know the correct version, and 
find it in Breuer and the Bar-Ilan Keter. BTW, the Ish Matzliach siddur 
also has it "correct".

In all three occurences without dagesh, the hal'luhu has a ta'am m'chabber.

All three are also in short sentences with two hal'luhu's the first 
without dagesh  and the second with.  Just like mi khamokha ba-elim H', 
mi kamokha neddar bakodesh and its many explanations which never quite 
satisfied me.

Any ideas other than the inaccuracies of copiers and printers?  Am I the 
only one who finds these things interesting


bivrakha,

David



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