[Mesorah] problems with tipcha, continued

[Sholom Simon via Mesorah]

Yep -- it sure is a mercha.

My brain was seeing the opposite when I wrote this.

Sorry -- and thanks for setting me straight before shabbos.

Good shabbos to all!

-- Sholom

At 04:24 PM 11/6/2015, elazar teitz wrote:
>Â  Â  Â "P'nei" has a meircha; the tipcha is on "chol-echav."
>
>Â  Â  Â A guten Shabbos.
>
>EMTÂ
>
>On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Sholom Simon via 
>Mesorah <<mailto:mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
>OK, I just don't get tipcha (despite a few folks 
>here trying to explain it to me).
>
>In the last couple of words of Chaya Sarah, we 
>read: "al p'nei chol achav nafal".
>
>"Pnei" has a tipcha -- yet "chol" has no 
>dagesh.  If a tipcha is a mafsik, then "chol" should have a dagesh.
>
>Is this telling me that the tipcha here is not a 
>mafsik?  Do we have a nismach situation here?
>
>Oy!
>
>Good shabbos everyone,
>
>-- Sholom
>
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