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<div dir="ltr">But, as you know realize, "pausal" is not so simple to define. There may be a "simple" answer to the Dagestan in the aleph, but certainly not simple to explain without a lengthy course in the Masorah. <br>
<div dir="ltr">Regarding why some people get it wrong, most people do not even understand "Hebrew grammar," let alone the Masorah. Someone may be a great talmid chochom and a tzaddiq without knowing bobkes about trop. It is a specialized field and not something
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<div class="null" dir="auto">On April 16, 2017 at 2:20:32 PM EDT, Sholom Simon <sholom@aishdas.org> wrote:<br class="null">
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<div class="null">But sometimes the answer to a question is simply a grammatical answer. E.g.,
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>1) the Masorah is not a grammatical work and is solely descriptive. <br class="null">
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