[Mesorah] Hoshanot: Samech vs Sin

[Akiva Miller]

Same thing in Kel Adon and lots of other places, like last week's Al Chet -
Sikur ayin and Siach sifsoseinu. I  once make a list of them, but I'm not
home right now. If you want a project for yomtov afternoon,  just grab a
few machzorim (don't forget kinos and selichos!) and go on a treasure hunt.

WHY and HOW this happened is far beyond me. These authors seem to have been
geniuses at fancy Hebrew grammar -- I can't accept that these are
rudimentary spelling errors. Maybe the "correct" spelling changed over time
(like the yud that was added to David in Divrei Hayamim), but for such a
great variety of words?

I'm confident that Rabbi Mandell will come along and enlighten us, but
YomTov will be here soon, so I wanted to post this just in case.

Akiva Miller


On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 1:37 PM Henry Topas via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Moed Tov,
>
> One of my congregants has asked me why in the sequence of this morning's
> hoshanot, phrases in the position of samech have been replaced with
> phrases beginning with the letter sin in the last 4 of the 7 beginning
> paragraphs and again in many of the later "Hoshana Rabba only" paragraphs?
>
> Thank you and a Git Kvitel,
>
> HT
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