[Mesorah] Shmeih -- Mapik Heh

[Mandel, Seth]

Yes, I am aware of the Tosfos.  Unfortunately, what I said about the AhS applies also to this.  There is NO nafqa mina regarding the mappiq he.  The third person masculine singular possessive suffix in Aramaic is  eH, with the he pronounced. Don't take my word for it.  Open up a T'NaKh, look at the first ocurrence in Sefer Doniel 2:6:
חֶלְמָא וּפִשְׁרֵהּ
"the dream and its meaning."
As we have talked about in the past, for some reason that I do not  know, knowledge of Aramaic disappeared in Ashkenaz very early, apparently by the 11th Century.  That is the reason given by the Rishonim as  to why the reading of the Targum when reading the Torah was cancelled there, since no one understands Aramaic (!!!). Of course, the rabbis who learned the G'moro learned the meaning of the words there, but as far as knowledge of Aramaic grammar goes, it was apparently gone.
So it should come as no surprise that Ashkenaz rabbis could make a comment like "if it means 'His name' it is without a mappiq he.
The reprobate Yemenites, who never changed their customs from the time of Chazal, still say the Targum, with a mappiq he at the end of every third person singular possessive suffix (masculine -eh, feminine -ah).


Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel

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From: Michael Poppers <michaelpoppers at gmail.com>
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To: nancy martin <nancy_martin1 at mail.com>
Cc: Mandel, Seth <mandels at ou.org>
Subject: Re: Shmeih -- Mapik Heh

Many thanks to the <nancy_martin1>-mailbox sender.  As RSM is far more knowledgable in Torah sources than I, he undoubtedly was already aware of Tos'fos on BT B'rachos, Tur OC 56, etc.  For my part, given that
-- the relevant phrases in Qaddish are in Aramaic;
-- not only the Aramaic word for "shmo" but also the heih in the _peirush_ (I emphasize that word, used by Tur et al., because it's not the same as the pronunciation) "sheim Yud-Heih" (based on the "ki yad..." source) is mappiq; and
-- AFAIK no rishon advocates pronouncing the relevant Qaddish phrases as "sheim..." rather than "shmei",
I think RSM wrote well on Mesorah re this matter.  If the sender of the PDF disagrees, s/he is welcome to reply to Mesorah....

A gut'n Shabbes and all the best from Michael

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:26 PM nancy martin <nancy_martin1 at mail.com<mailto:nancy_martin1 at mail.com>> wrote:
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