[Mesorah] aleph with a dagesh

[Sholom Simon via Mesorah]

But sometimes the answer to a question is simply a grammatical answer.  E.g.,

Q: Why did the pasuk end with the word pronounced as "pasach"
A:  Because that is the pausal form of the word

So, I was asking if this aleph had that kind of answer.

As for vayyishchat -- I understand the issues involved (at least to 
the extent that you taught them to me), but I wonder why so many 
others get that wrong.  (But I'll save that for another message)

At 01:33 PM 4/16/2017, Mandel, Seth wrote:
>1) the Masorah is not a grammatical work and is solely descriptive.
>2) the answer to many questions of the Masorah is often buried deep 
>within the Masorah, as the studies of the ge'ayot shows. There can 
>be no reasonable attempt at understanding features withou 
>understanding the totality of the environment, not just the 
>word.  To that I was alluding when I mentioned the occurrences of 
>the word vayyishchat. When you look at the entire environment the 
>different trop used with the word make a lot of sense.