<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">RGD et al., this paragraph from <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/leining/d$27chik$20atei%7Csort:date/leining/CzQ4WwB76J8/CMc-tb_1DwAJ">a Leining-group post</a> by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rivka-Sherman-Gold/e/B00IZ6XQZ2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1">Rivka Sherman-Gold</a> may be helpful: "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">Some Biblical Hebrew scholars use the term Dagesh Me</span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">h</u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">aber for the dagesh referred to as Atei Merahik or De</span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">h</u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">ik. Yeivin’s book on the Tiberian Masorah states that a word’s first syllable takes a dagesh if (i) it is stressed on its first syllable (which has the first full vowel, whether or not it is preceded by a shva or hataf) and (ii) it is preceded by word that has a conjunctive accent and ends in an open syllable with a kamatz or a segol. It has been suggested that the Aramaic term Atei Mera</span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">h</u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">ik refers to the phenomenon, whereas the Aramaic term De</span><u style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">h</u><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">ik refers to the dagesh itself.</span>"</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Juno via Mesorah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Reb Seth, can you be a little more generous in your explanation of dechik?<br><br><div id="m_8771042818547046342AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Dec 20, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">You are wrong.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The matter is complex, not simple at all.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">My tikkun (alright, it is a Teimani tikkun, and they even care about things like ge‘ayot) does have a note that it is noteworthy.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It is termed a d'hiq, but the rules are not too well defined, even thought the d'hiq and the 'ate merahiq were both known by those versed in Masorah 1,000 years ago.<br>
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<div id="m_8771042818547046342divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah-bounces@lists.<wbr>aishdas.org</a>> on behalf of Sholom Simon via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:31 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Mesorah] mishneh-kesef</font>
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<div class="m_8771042818547046342PlainText">In the last pasuk of the 5th aliyah in Miketz, we read "mishneh-kesef".<br>
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Why does the kaf in "kesef" have a dagesh?<br>
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I'm guessing that the answer is simple and not noteworthy (because my <br>
tikkun, which has notes all over the place, makes no comment on this).<br>
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