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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Thanks, Dov, this is incredibly helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>I have actually been in contact with Prof. Leah in the past year or 2, and we had a long talk about a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>I texted her this morning, before I sent my message to this group, but she responded that she is extremely busy for the next 2 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>As you say, I think there might be a copy of her doctorate in the Bar Ilan library, but I doubt there are any others available, from what I remember her telling me back then. It’s not online. I’ve never seen it myself, although I’d very much like to, especially right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>You seemed to be referencing it by looking at it. Do you have a copy yourself? How did you have those wonderful sources from her work?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Do you happen to know where in the Leningrad Codex the list appears? Leningrad is online, and if I know where to search, maybe I can see it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>And do you know where the Aleppo list is? If she compares the 2, may I assume that Aleppo also has a list?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Thanks for taking the time to assist!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Yitzhak<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Dov Bloom <dovbbb@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 23 June 2024 10:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> Yitzhak Ajzner <yitzhakajz@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Mesorah Email List <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] List of all the Passeks in the Bible<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Prof. Leah Himmelfarb (nee Widowski) of Bar Ilan wrote her doctorate on the Passek. Printed in 5750.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>She uses as a basis the list of passeks in the Leningrad Codex (587 passeks) starting on page 19 of her work. So this is your main list from early times. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On page 44ff she discusses 6 differences between Leningrad and Alleppo codex (a 98.5% correspondence) WRT passeks. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In a table from page 361-374 she lists another 223 examples of passeks occuring in various other significant manuscripts and printed additions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Her work, whose main value is her dealing with the syntactic and grammatical uses and ramifications of the pasek, is the most comprehensive and valuable work on the passek I know of (in spite of 35 years passing since she wrote it).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I dont think it is readily available anywhere, maybe in Bar Ilan or other accademic libraries. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dov Bloom<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 09:29 Yitzhak Ajzner via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Hello All,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>I understand that there is a list, or maybe lists, of all the passeks in the Mikra, written in the time of the Ba’alei HaMessorah. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Does anybody know where such a list appears?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>If so, how I can access it?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#002060'>Yitzhak</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Mesorah mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org" target="_blank">http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>