[Mesorah] mis-accentuation

[David and Esther Bannett]

I noticed that some posters recommended the use of m'tagim to aid in 
correct pronunciation. One should realize that the number m'tagim in the 
chumashim and tanakhim have varied.  The Mikraot G'dolot Venetzia, 1525 
has many in the chumash and much less in different parts of na"kh. R' 
Yekutiel Ha-kohen made rules about the m'tagim which resulted in a large 
increase in m'tagim as the Torah was "modified" to meet the rules. R' 
Shlomo Dubna removed some.  Heidenheim followed R' Yekutiel, R' 
Mordekhai Breuer removed some. The Bar-Ilan reconstituted Keter used a 
computer to get statistics on m'tagim and removed some more. It also 
showed that R' Shlomo Dubna had sometimes removed the wrong ones.  Ohr 
Torah , R' Menahem De Lonzano, wrote that the Ashkenazi Tanakhim had 
much too many g'ayot and he was giving up on the enormous job their 
removal.  He noted that the Ashkenazim called them me'teg and he calls 
yjem, meteg l'chamor.

On m'tagim, I recommend using the photographed Keter at 
http://www.aleppocodex.org/. As most of the chumash is missing from the 
photographed Keter, for a complete Keter use the Bar-Ilan Keter which 
can be found at http://www.mgketer.org/

Much has been posted about din d'chik and atei meirachik.  It should be 
noted that what some call d'chik others call atei meirachik and vice versa.


bivrakha,

David
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