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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>volume 2, sha`ar heh, p. 190.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dotan edition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dov Bloom [mailto:dovb@netvision.net.il] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 21, 2011 4:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> Hayyim Obadyah<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] shewa gerud<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Where in diqduqei haTeamim? What page/paragraph/note in the Dotan edition or whatever version you are using?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Or is this an article by Dotan, if so where? Can you give us more context</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:HayyimObadyah@aol.com" title="HayyimObadyah@aol.com">Hayyim Obadyah</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cc:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" title="mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:42 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Re: [Mesorah] shewa gerud<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>the expression is used by A. Dotan in explaining a paragraph in Diqduqei hatTe`amim about a shewa under the first of two identical consonants, so I’m pretty sure it’s a masora question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ira L. Jacobson [mailto:laser@ieee.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> Hayyim Obadyah<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] shewa gerud<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i><span style='color:navy'>At 14:01 21-08-11 -0400, Hayyim Obadyah stated the following:<br><br></span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>can anyone tell me what is meant by the term <span style='font-size:13.5pt'>שווא גרוד</span> (shewa gerud)?<br>thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:navy'><br>At the risk of being far off-base, I wonder if the word is not "shav" rather than "sheva," and therefore the meaning is not a Mesorah-type of term.<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style='color:navy'>~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=<br>IRA L. JACOBSON<br></span></i><span style='color:navy'>=<i>~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~<br></i></span><i><a href="mailto:laser@ieee.org">mailto:laser@ieee.org</a></i> <br><br><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Quote of the Week:<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"The real opponents of Zionism can never be placated by any diplomatic formula: their objection to the Jews is that the Jews exist, and in this particular case, they exist in Palestine ." <br>-Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Mesorah mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org">http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>