<div dir="auto">Fascinating! Thank you!<div dir="auto">and Chag Sameach to all!</div><div dir="auto">Akiva Miller </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 3:54 PM Mandel, Seth <<a href="mailto:mandels@ou.org">mandels@ou.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">It is more complex than that.
<div dir="ltr">It is clear that at one stage in Semitic languages there were three distinct sounds. A major proof is that roots with samekh in the T’NaKh have an /s/ sound both in Hebrew and Arabic, whereas roots spelling with sin always have an /sh/ in Arabic,
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<div dir="ltr">So there were three sounds (let’s call them A, B, and C), which collapsed into two in all known Semitic languages, but in different dialects and languages they collapsed in different ways. </div>
<div dir="ltr">In standard Hebrew and Aramaic, B and C (the ones written by sin and samekh) became identical. In Arabic, the ones written by A and C became identical. In Phoenician and Northern Hebrew, the ones written by A and B became identical. </div>
<div dir="ltr">Hebrewuses an alphabet developed in the north and Phoenicia, so we have the same letter for two different sounds, distinguished by the Massoretes by dots. And Biblical Hebrew uses the old spelling, even though it does not show the pronunciation. </div>
<div dir="ltr">In later Hebrew and in Aramaic, view of George Bernard Shaw, that the spelling should reflect the pronunciation, not any history, won, and so they spelled sin with a samekh to reflect that in their Hebrew it had always been the same. </div>
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<div dir="auto">On October 20, 2019 at 3:35:38 PM EDT, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>If I understand RSM correctly, there were three [insert correct noun here]s:
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<div dir="auto">First, there was a letter he refers to as "original samekh". This is where the word was always spelled with a samekh, and still is.</div>
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<div dir="auto">In other cases, the word was spelled with a "sin form". This letter is actually a samekh, but it looks like a sin and that's very confusing. So they (whoever "they" are) decided to draw it like a samekh. But in older texts, the
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<div dir="auto">The third group has words that were always spelled with a sin, and still are.</div>
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<div dir="auto">RSM, would it be fair to compare that middle category to the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.m.wikipedia.org_wiki_Long-5Fs&d=DwMFaQ&c=VTwaeXjOsAHot2hQQ0nozrBJwyviuCtydNuGwYGfYiI&r=e6XbAQdGwcl_5FMtQ-t1eA&m=DDm5gz02RLGBRdyPWvLYYdouSW-f4JIb7OmHCcRXQpY&s=5onn6oIywoRHdbMqYxPfpH-EZKIhhnjZjkGSf-wWAkg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s</a>
in English? That letter is truly an s, but so many moderns confuse it with the f, and even ridicule it as such (as documented in that Wiki article). Similarly, these letters are truly samekh, but we mistakenly think it to be a misplaced sin when we see it
between nun and ayin.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 20, 2019 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Akiva Miller <<a href="mailto:akivagmiller@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">akivagmiller@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] Hoshanot: Samech vs Sin</font>
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<div>And in Ha'aderes v'He'emuna, we have, at the place where a samech would be: siguy (with a samech) but segev (with a sin)</div>
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<div>Spelling did change over time . . . e.g., the word Sota -- in Torah with a sin (Bamidbar 5:12, 5:29), in Talmud with a samech, which is why Rambam is insistent on using a sin, but (most?) everybody else used a samech.</div>
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<div>But what I thought RHT was asking about was the *pattern* he saw, rather than simply a replacement of sin/samech.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Same thing in Kel Adon and lots of other places, like last week's Al Chet - Sikur ayin and Siach sifsoseinu. I once make a list of them, but I'm not home right now. If you want a project for yomtov afternoon, just grab a few machzorim
(don't forget kinos and selichos!) and go on a treasure hunt.
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<div dir="auto">WHY and HOW this happened is far beyond me. These authors seem to have been geniuses at fancy Hebrew grammar -- I can't accept that these are rudimentary spelling errors. Maybe the "correct" spelling changed over time (like the
yud that was added to David in Divrei Hayamim), but for such a great variety of words?</div>
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<div dir="auto">I'm confident that Rabbi Mandell will come along and enlighten us, but YomTov will be here soon, so I wanted to post this just in case.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 1:37 PM Henry Topas via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>One of my congregants has asked me why in the sequence of this morning's hoshanot, phrases in the position of samech have been replaced with phrases beginning with the letter sin in the last 4 of the 7 beginning paragraphs and again in many
of the later "Hoshana Rabba only" paragraphs?</div>
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<div>Thank you and a Git Kvitel,</div>
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