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<DIV><SPAN class=625335218-07092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>No. The
word 'eres ALWAYS becomes ha'ares with qames when the article is
added.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=625335218-07092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>The same is
true of har (mountain), hag (festival), `am (people), par (bull), and often
'aron (ark). GKC sect. 35o.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=625335218-07092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Hayyim</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org
[mailto:mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Joshua
Meisner<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:18 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
mesorah@aishdas.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Mesorah] Sefardic nusach of
brachos<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Hayyim Obadyah <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:HayyimObadyah@aol.com">HayyimObadyah@aol.com</A>></SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN>The changes in the Hebrew of the
Ashkenazic prayerbook to use phonological rules of Biblical Hebrew took place
in the 17th century when a movement among grammarians to return to the
'purity' of Biblical Hebrew coincided with an increase in printed prayerbooks
over which they had influence. The change of geshem to gashem and gefen
to gafen were both part of that. In hammosi lehem min ha'ares, the word
lehem does not occur at the end of a clause and so it was not changed to
lahem.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>My second question was
regarding the word ha-aretz vs. ha-eretz, not regarding the word lechem, but
modifying my original suspicion based on your answer, I guess that the bracha on
bread was set up using the accented form ha-aretz rather than the basic form
ha-eretz because it was based on a passuk in Tehillim, while the bracha on wine
was set up using the Mishnaic form, which did not utilize the accented
form. Correct?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Josh<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>