[Mesorah] 'Tis Chanukka

[Michael Poppers]

Quoth R'Seth, "As with most of dikduk, we are dealing with picayune
mistakes.  But a mistake it is, and it grates on my ears."  To which I
humbly add, "And that's the EHmes" :).

> vaychulLU, whereas almost everyone says vayCHUlu <
At least a small part of the problem is that many of our brethren do not
know (dare I add, do not care to learn the basics of) *ta'amei haMiqra*,
not just their function in creating phrases but their function as accents.
Maybe *hQbH* will grant me the *koach* & my local school will someday let
me teach* t'amim* to the young'uns ....

> many places where people mispronounce ... a couple of places almost
everyone makes a mistake <
C'mon, R'Seth, don't hold back -- tell us how you really feel :).

Gut Chodesh & "Zos Chanukas haMizbeiach!" from *Michael*

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> and with it a pet peeve of mine.
>
> There are many places where people mispronounce the Hebrew.  In many of
> these places, people who know some grammar do not, for instance in the
> first b'rokho of Shmoneh Esreh most people who have learned Hebrew say
> "hagoDOL hagibBOR v'hannoRA," even though you will find those who say
> "haGOdol haGIBbor v'haNOra."
>
> But there are a couple of places almost everyone makes a mistake
> (although, for completely full disclosure, RYHBS said correctly; he was not
> much on dikduk but R. Chaim Brisker was):
>
> one is in the b'rokhos on neros Chanukka: she'Osoh NIsim, instead of
> she'osSOH nisSIM.
>
> Another is qiddush on Friday night; vaychulLU, whereas almost everyone
> says vayCHUlu.
>
> I am not focusing on the change in meaning, which is only in the last
> case.  I am focusing on the clear distortion of the Hebrew.  The reason is
> clear: they learned the b'rokhos and qiddush from someone from Eastern
> Europe who pronounced Hebrew with the penultimate stress of Yiddish, rather
> than the ultimate stress that is standard in most Hebrew words.
>
> As with most of dikduk, we are dealing with picayune mistakes.  But a
> mistake it is, and it grates on my ears.
>
>
>
> Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel
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> The Orthodox Union
>
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