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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It still seems to me that the Rambam's description of what Chazal mean is the most authenic, and it is certainly the oldest.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As all the nos'ei kelim noted, the Ra'avd's comment on the Rambam, although equally old, can teach us nothing. The Ra'avad made his comment on the background of his pronunciation. Although it is easy for a linguist to
see what the Ra'avad's pronunciation of Hebrew must have been like, it is nothing like any of the pronunciations we have today.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 25, 2017 10:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mandel, Seth; Micha Berger; mesorah@aishdas.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] mishneh-kesef</font>
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<div>This is what the מנחת שי has to say about בכל-לבבך:</div>
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<div dir="rtl">כשאמרו רז"ל שצריך לחתן ריוח בין הדבקים לא אמרו להפסיק שלא לתת מקף בין שני הלמדין כאשר הוא, שאם יקרא אותו בלי מקף יהיה נקוד בחולם, וזה לא אמרו רז"ל להחליף התנועות אשר נתנו למשה מסיני *) אלא אף על פי שיקראם במקף יתן ריוח והבדל ביניהם שידמה
כי שני למדין קרא (מכלול דף צ"ו וכן כל כיוצא בזה</div>
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<div>The footnote reads:</div>
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<div dir="rtl">עיין בספר הכוזרי מאמר ג סימן ל ובספר מסורת המסורה למדקדק הגדול ר' אלי' בחור וגם מטפחת ספרים להגאון מו"ה יעב"ץ ד"ה א"פ</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The G'moro seems to be pretty clear when it says "revach bein had'vekim." The Rambam brings it the same way:<br>
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<div align="right"><b>ב,ט</b> כיצד מדקדק,ייזהר שלא ירפה החזק ולא יחזק הרפה ולא יניד הנח ולא יניח הנד. לפיכך צריך ליתן ריוח בין כל שתי אותות הדומות שאחת מהן סוף תיבה והאחרת תחילת תיבה הסמוכה לה, כגון "בכל לבבך" קורא "בכל" ושוהה וחוזר וקורא "לבבך", וכן "ואבדתם
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If you need something between the d'veqim, letters that "stick" together, one cannot pronounce them as one doubled letter.
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">But this is a rule special for Q'S, apparently, derived from the requirement of "limmud tam," and so it may not necessarily apply to anything else. The R'DaQ claims that it is not only QS, but anything, and QS was just
a place to be more careful. But the Masorah, in discussing two identical letters one after another in the word, implies that in some cases, one is "gol'lam yachad."<br>
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<div id="x_m_-959509179204339648divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org" target="_blank">micha@aishdas.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 25, 2017 4:01 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] mishneh-kesef</font>
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<div class="x_m_-959509179204339648PlainText"><span class="">On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 03:44:51PM +0000, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah wrote:<br>
: When words are connected with a maqqaf, the first word loses its stress<br>
: and its vowel may b changed, because it is now considered part of a<br>
: larger word. In some cases, there is a secondary stress on the first word;<br>
: in others there is not.<br>
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Tangent, but very much halakhah lemaaseh:<br>
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And in Shema, how many /l/ sounds do you make in "al-levavekha"?<br>
Do you say both lameds with a pause mid-teivah (I prefer that to<br>
modifying the meaning of the word "word"), or pronounce it like<br>
a lamed-degushah?<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
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