[Mesorah] Kimchi's rules

[David and Esther Bannett]

Methinks the time has come to clear up the discussion on Mosaret vs. Kimchi.

All ba'alei mesorah before the Kimichis mention that there are seven 
vowels in Hebrew.
  R' Yosef Kimchi, the father of, Radak made a serious change. He made 
ten vowels instead of seven.

He did this by inventing five pairs of long and short vowels. kamatz and 
patach, tzeireh and segol, shuruk and kubutz, chirik and chirik rachav 
(with yud), cholom, and kamatz katan.

All very logical, but non-existent before Kimchi. From these pairs, new 
rules  on d'geshim and sh'vaim appeared.  After a long vowel the 
following letter has no dagesh and the following sh'va is na'.  After a 
short vowel, the following letter has a dagesh and the following sh'va 
is nach.

As these inventions were accepted, the rules if dikduk became different 
from the masoretic rules.


Pesach kasher v'sameach

David Bannett






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