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<div dir="ltr">Mechón Mamet uses a technical rule: every mafsiq on trop gets at least a comma. Regardless of whether it makes any sense. </div>
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<div class="null" dir="auto">On January 28, 2018 at 11:28:58 AM CST, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org> wrote:<br class="null">
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<div class="null">In the thread "a kleinigkeit", Rabbi Mandel posted a pasuk which is an<br class="null">
excellent illustration of a question I've wondered about. He posted it<br class="null">
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<p class="null">יד:יא וַיֹּאמְרוּ, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה הֲמִבְּלִי אֵיןקְבָרִים בְּמִצְרַיִם<br class="null">
לְקַחְתָּנוּ לָמוּת בַּמִּדְבָּר, מַה-זֹּאת עָשִׂיתָ לָּנוּ<br class="null">
לְהוֹצִיאָנוּ מִמִּצְרָvayomru el Moshe" is zarka-segol. Why would<br class="null">
anyone put a comma for zarka? Does the zarka function as a mafsik<br class="null">
here? "Vayomru el Moshe" is a phrase, a unit in which a comma is<br class="null">
totally inappropriate. What am I missing?</p>
<p class="null">Akiva Miller</p>
<p class="null">On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Mandel, Seth via Mesorah<br class="null">
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> I call it that because most people only care about masorah if it changes the<br class="null">
> meaning or the pronunciation.<br class="null">
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> But the non-defenestrated denizens of the Mesorah group understand that the<br class="null">
> masorah is much deeper than such things, and is important in light of the<br class="null">
> number of rishonim who spent time on it.<br class="null">
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> So I am mentioning something that I shamefully admit that I was unaware of<br class="null">
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> יד:יא וַיֹּאמְרוּ, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה הֲמִבְּלִי אֵיןקְבָרִים בְּמִצְרַ לְקַחְתָּנוּ לָמוּת בַּמִּדְבָּר, מַה-זֹּאת עָשִׂיתָ לָּנוּ לְהוֹצִיאָנוּ<br class="null">
> מִמִּצְרָ<br class="null">
> regarding the word "hamibb'li," all printed Chumashim have the punctuation<br class="null">
> as is above, with a hataph-patah under the he'.<br class="null">
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> However, that is not the puncuation in the kisvei yad that represent the<br class="null">
> Ben-Asher masorah. Rather, all of them, without exception have a full patah<br class="null">
> — WITH a ge‘aya/AKA meteg. As the meritorious members of this group are<br class="null">
> aware, that means that the syllable "ha" is lengthened and has a secondary<br class="null">
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> The Minchas Shai already noticed this issue. He notes that R. Yonah had it<br class="null">
> with a full patah, and it is the R'DaQ who says it should be a hataph-patah<br class="null">
> based on S'faradi mss. He even goes on to say that there are some who claim<br class="null">
> that the ms. on which R.Yonah was basing himself was the Aleppo Codex. That<br class="null">
> means to me that the Minchas Shay, without being able to decide the matter,<br class="null">
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> In any event, now we can be certain based on the better mss. that we have.<br class="null">
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> Prescriptive grammarians, who hold that the he' hash'elah should always have<br class="null">
> a hataph-patah, of course will be disturbed. But as we know, the Masorah<br class="null">
> did not believe in prescriptive grammar, only in descriptive.<br class="null">
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