[Mesorah] Kimchi's rules

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It seems to me to make more sense to say that Kimchi, rather than "inventing" anything, systematized and made consistent what existed before him."Invent?orDiscover?RRW
-------- Original message --------From: Simon Montagu via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> Date: 4/16/19  3:29 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: David and Esther Bannett <dbnet at zahav.net.il> Cc: mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Kimchi's rules On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:44 PM David and Esther Bannett via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
  

    
  
  
    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.Which of these vowels did not exist before Kimchi? Surely they are all there in the Masoretic text. It seems to me to make more sense to say that Kimchi, rather than "inventing" anything, systematized and made consistent what existed before him.
      
      
      Pesach kasher v'sameach
      
      David Bannett
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  

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