[Mesorah] YA'AN

[Mandel, Seth]

This is a sufficient reason for the Masorah to comment.  They comment for all sorts of reasons, not just "grammatical" or "spelling."

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel
Rabbinic Coordinator
The Orthodox Union

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From: Aharon Gal <galsaba at aol.com>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:22 PM
To: Mandel, Seth <mandels at ou.org>
Cc: mesorah at lists.aishdas.org <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>; Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon <jeremy.simon at nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: YA'AN

Thank you !
Usually the word “YA’AN’ is logically connected to the words that comes after it, and indeed, I found that the majority of the 97 cases of where the word YA’AN appears, it comes with a MESHARET.
There are few places that it comes with Shalish, and some cases with Ravia, Pashta or Yativ.  It is easy to explain  the last two, as they come before Zakef Katon.
The only three places where YA’AN comes with a MELECH, are the places that the Mesora mentioned.  My understanding is that it is unusual to have YA’AN with a MELECH. (There is one more YA’AN, comes with Zakef Katon, but in that case YA’AN is a name of a place).
When I read these three places I can feel that YAAN really is emphasized, and probably this is the reason why the Ba’ale Hateamim used Zakef Gadol for this three.
לענ״ד

Aharon

On Nov 16, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Mandel, Seth <mandels at ou.org<mailto:mandels at ou.org>> wrote:

That is the way the Masorah works.  It only comments on things that it finds unusual.  It does not aim to highlight every form and everywhere it might appear

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel
Rabbinic Coordinator
The Orthodox Union

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Subject: YA'AN

The word “yaan” appears many times in the Tanach, but only in three places the Mesora writes: "Gimel BeTa’ama”.
The Mesora writes about the three cases where “yaan” comes with Zakef Gadol:
Devarim 1:36, Yechezkel 31:10, Yirmiyahu 25:8
Why the Mesora talks about only about the places, and not about all the other places where “yaan” comes with other trops?

Kol Tuv,

Aharon Gal


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