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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>While learning parts of Seifer Yirm’yahu to <a href="http://elmora.thejec.org/members/AnnouncementsList/2012/Announcements0077_2012May.htm#msg_thirteen">help complete</a> my community’s recent Siyum TaNaCH, I noticed many footnotes highlighting a particular vowel and/or <i>ta’am</i>, and the notes which referred to the <i>tipcha</i> spelled it with a <i>reish</i> in place of the <i>pei</i>. Google reminded me <URL: </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>http://goo.gl/KzIYm</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>> that RDB wrote the following to Avodah some time ago <URL: </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol07/v07n065.shtml#07">http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol07/v07n065.shtml#07</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>>: “</span><span style='color:black'>the tipcha (or tircha = tarcha as it is often called in ta'amei emet).</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>” Seems like the <i>ta’am</i> in question is also called a <i>t*rcha</i> at least in Yirm’yahu at least by someone (or perhaps someone thinks that this <i>seifer</i> is part of <i>sifrei EMeT</i> :)). Further Googling <URL: </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#215868'>http://goo.gl/A1lIU</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>> indicates that this <i>ta’am</i> is called a <i>tarcha</i> by MS in a Seifer-B’midbar comment (see </span><a href="http://parsha.blogspot.com/2009/06/careful-with-your-tipcha-or-you.html">http://parsha.blogspot.com/2009/06/careful-with-your-tipcha-or-you.html</a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>), by at least one “<i>chacham</i>” as quoted by Heidenheim (see </span><a href="http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=7218&pgnum=12">http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=7218&pgnum=12</a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, esp. the footnote), apparently by Teimanim (see </span><a href="http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5763/reeh63/dav.htm">http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5763/reeh63/dav.htm</a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>), in the “Sephardi cantillation” (see </span><a href="http://www.kolkore.com/downloads/eng_man.pdf">http://www.kolkore.com/downloads/eng_man.pdf</a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, p.11, and </span><a href="http://utne.nvg.org/j/parasha/taamim_london.html">http://utne.nvg.org/j/parasha/taamim_london.html</a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>), and by 17<sup>th</sup>-cent. Amama (see </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365D'>http://goo.gl/2dijs</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>), Hanneken (see </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4F6228'><a href="http://goo.gl/8AKW2">http://goo.gl/8AKW2</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>), and Leusden (see </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#632423'>http://goo.gl/JwP2D</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>A gut'n Shabbos/Shabbas Shalom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'>and all the best from<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#7030A0'>Michael Poppers</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> * </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#7030A0'>Elizabeth, NJ, USA</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>