[Mesorah] Masoretic Issues that Intrigue me - Hallel

[David and Esther Bannett via Mesorah]

I, too, find controversies interesting, but I think we have to look at 
them a bit differently.  We should be  trying to find the girsa most 
likely to be the "correct" one. That is, the oldest, or that found in 
the most accepted of the ancient sources.

In the examples from hallel I don't see any controversy as it is quite 
obvious which is the  "correct" version. Just Google "Aleppo codex", 
click on "read the...", go to tehillim and look.  The Keter and all the 
accurate manuscripts as well as the Venice Mikraot Gedolot (1625) agree 
on the same versions.  Merhav Yah is two words with mappik in the hei.  
Hoshi'a is mi'lra and all four na' have a dagesh in the nun. You might 
have a Tanakh with the Leningrad text. Take a look there.

All the old accurate sources agree.  The so called controversy started 
many years later.  The Minhat Shai made the hoshi'a into mil'eil because 
of his misinterpreting the mesorot and everyone joined in.  I especially 
like the "Medakd'im to read hoshi'a mel'eil and hatzlicha mil'ra.

With all the sources now available and after the work of R' Mordekhai 
Breuer and of the academics at the Hebrew University there is not much 
room for controversy in the Tanakh.

Why not go over to the siddur. There is where one can find controversy 
without end and it is not always obvious what is the version that should 
be preferred.


bivrakha,

David
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