<html><head></head><body dir="auto" lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Zekher was the most common form in old Askenaz mss, probably originating in the fact that in the Medieval period Ashkenazi communities used a pronunciation like Sefaradim, and tzere and seghol were pronounced identically. </span><br style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); line-height: initial;">Rabbi Seth Mandel"</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sounds to me that medieval scribes were not the most reliable people in terms of proper nikkud and we're prone to errors</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have found numerous occasions in Tosafos where there are errors in grammar. Either Tosafos was careless, or the copyists were. I prefer the latter explanation. Maybe ther are even more.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bottom line, IMHO there is plenty of room for emendation.</div></body></html>