<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 4:19 AM Aaron Gal via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" class="">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: arial;" class="">Why Ashkenazim cute "Morid HaGashem", and the Sephardim - Morid HaGeshem.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>One partial explanation that I’ve heard (don’t remember where):</div><div><br class=""></div><div>In Israel, the practice is to say “livrakha” after this phrase. Since the word in question isn’t pausal, it makes sense to say “haGeshem” rather than “haGashem”. FTR, ingrained habits are hard to break; I’m more likely to say “haGashem”, but I expect this to change with time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>שבת שלום</div><br class=""><div class="">
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