<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>Now, if you say the Radaq's rules contradict those, at least then we're<br>be grappling with two of the same kind.<br><br>Tir'u baTov!<br>-Micha"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I've heard that the Qimchi rules differ from the Rules of the Masoretes</div><div><br></div><div>I'm seeking a list specifying their points of departure</div><div><br></div><div>I use Qimchi because AIUI this was a family edeavor.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">RRW</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org> </div><div>Date: 4/15/19 4:59 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: mesorah@aishdas.org </div><div>Cc: Richard Wolpoe <rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com>, Akiva Miller <akivagmiller@gmail.com>, mandels@ou.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [Mesorah] P. Metzora 14:6 Hash'chutah </div><div><br></div></div>On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 02:00:54PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Mesorah wrote:<br>: I'm having trouble with the clause "The Masoretic text does not follow our<br>: rules of Diqduq". If I'm reading it correctly, then either the Masoretic<br>: text is wrong, or our rules of Diqduq are wrong. Which?<br><br>I am not clear on the comparison. The mesoretic text contains examples,<br>not rules.<br><br>And every rule for a language has exceptions. Add to that a text designed<br>with intentional oddities to support derashos (and, according to the<br>Raavad, even asmachatos) and you will have a lot of exceptions.<br><br>So, the question is whether the various "our rules of Diqduq", or to<br>go back to where we started, the Radaq's rules of diqduq, are found<br>consistently enough to be considered rules, where exceptions should be<br>considered noteworthy.<br><br>But I feel like we just started comparing apples and battle hymns.<br><br>The nearest I would think we have to mesoretic rules of diqduq is "Sefer<br>Diqduqei HaT'amim, which is attributed to R. Aharon ben Asher himself",<br>as RSM described it on this list in Apr 2001. At the time, he shared<br>Aharon Dotan's edition, which is still available at<br><http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/dikdukeiHaTeamim.pdf><br>(Except for the last page, which RSM included as proof of age, and just<br>for aesthetic reasons.)<br><br>Now, if you say the Radaq's rules contradict those, at least then we're<br>be grappling with two of the same kind.<br><br>Tir'u baTov!<br>-Micha<br><br>-- <br>Micha Berger Man can aspire to spiritual-moral greatness<br>micha@aishdas.org which is seldom fully achieved and easily lost<br>http://www.aishdas.org again. Fulfillment lies not in a final goal,<br>Fax: (270) 514-1507 but in an eternal striving for perfection. -RSRH<br></body></html>