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<div>From a young friend of mine (YU student who also leyns at his local shul)</div>
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<div>His questions are getting way too hard for me. Does anybody have any thoughts on any of these issues?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2611" style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="ltr" align="LEFT">I noticed a few weeks ago (parshas Behaalosecha) that there was a machlokes about a word whether the accent should be m'leil or m'lera. The Minchas Shai brings down this machlokes on Bamidbar 11:8 on the word (shin-tes-vav) שטו. I did a little research and found a Gur Aryeh on Rashi to Breishis <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2741" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2740" style="font-weight: normal;">34:29 s.v. “</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2742" style="font-weight: normal;">שָׁבוּ</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2613" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2612" style="font-weight: normal;">" (shavu - shin-beis-vav) that says a two letter root in past tense always has "ta'am m'leil." Although the Minchas Shai seemed to think שטו (shin-tes-vav) should be accented m'lerah, he said that was "על דרך הזרות" (al derech hazaros) i.e. strange. In other words, I think he would agree to the Gur Aryeh's rule in general, albeit with some exceptions. <br /></span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2853" style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="ltr" align="LEFT"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2613" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2612" style="font-weight: normal;">[I know current grammar systems consider those verbs as having three letter roots i.e. שבו (shin-beis-vav) wouldn't be שב (shin-beis), rather שבה (shin-beis-hey).] </span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2854" style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="ltr" align="LEFT"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2613" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2612" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2668" style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="ltr" align="LEFT"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2613" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435173045354_2612" style="font-weight: normal;">I came across a few other verbs of this kind. One appears in Bamidbar 13:32, "תרו" (tav-reish-vav) and the other in this week's parsha Bamidbar 20:13 "רבו." (reish-beis-vav) I don't know if I can rely on my tikkun for the right pronunciation, especially when there is a discrepancy between different tikkuns. Do you know a good place to look that is authoritative on these issues?</span></span></div>
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