<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="direction: ltr;">Yitzhak,</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr;">I don't have a copy to check, but I suspect the symbol is there to indicate that that line at the top of the column is a blank line making a פרשה פתוחה. A similar notation is present after שירת הים.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Zuki</div><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">-- </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Yitzchak M. Gottlieb</span></div><div>zukigottlieb@gmail.com</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 26, 2024, at 06:11, Yitzhak Ajzner via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Do any of you have an idea what this Nu’n is, that appears in the Keter Yerushalayim edition, before Shmuel 1, Chapter 3, verse 19? Top right here. It has a dot on top of it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><img width="466" height="646" style="width:4.85in;height:6.725in" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="image007.png" src="cid:image007.png@01DA7F53.2F4783C0"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">It does not appear in the Mossad HaRav Kook editions, neither Da’at HaMikra, nor Rav Breuer’s edition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">It doesn’t appear in the Keter Aram Tzova either:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><img width="382" height="463" style="width:3.975in;height:4.825in" id="Picture_x0020_2" alt="image008.png" src="cid:image008.png@01DA7F53.2F4783C0"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Could it be simply an error? Somehow, the Keter Yerushalayim edition doesn’t seem the kind of publication that would have such a slip-up in it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060"><img width="223" height="302" style="width:2.325in;height:3.15in" id="Picture_x0020_3" alt="image009.png" src="cid:image009.png@01DA7F53.2F4783C0"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">What do you think?</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060">Yitzhak<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Mesorah mailing list</span><br><span>Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</span><br><span>http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>