<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body lang="en-US" style=""><div><br></div><div>What is the connection in the 21 books between Shalsheles and the Segol (Segolta)?</div><div><br></div><div>I've been told that wherever there "should have been" a zarko segol, but there was only one word, it acquired a shalsheles instead. EG in Tzav Vayishchat has a shalsheles, but had there been a subject - Mosheh - it would have become zarko segol. </div><div><br></div><div>Is this assumption true?</div><div>Is there a source for this?</div><div><br></div><div>We looked at Hedidenheim's Mishp'tei Hat'amim and he said nothing explicit on it, but did group them together under the same topic heading. </div></body></html>