[Mesorah] Two (obvious) questions on parshas bereshis - double trop and double arum

[Simon Montagu]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:30 PM Danny Levy via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> In the absence of direct evidence, to claim as Benner does that "at some
> point in the ancient past the letter ghayin began to be written with the
> letter ayin" is, I think, problematic to reconcile with an Orthodox
> approach to Mesorah.
>

It seems to me the same issue as the introduction of the final and medial
letters (for which there is direct evidence that there was a time when they
were written in the same form at any position in the word) -- shechahum
vehazru vissedum.
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