Monday, June 01, 2009

The rules of trup, pg vi

The Rules of Trup by Wolf Heidenheim continues. See previous segment. He concludes his discussion of whether or not segolta is a melech, and turns to pasek. He says it is not, and even though you see the same vertical bar in the munach legarmeih, that is a different trup. And he explains away the seeming exception. The text of his work follows:

for one instance in Scriptures where the segolah does not come after it, and it is (Yeshaya 45:1)*
כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֮ לִמְשִׁיחוֹ֮ לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ | אֲשֶׁר־הֶֽחֱזַ֣קְתִּי בִֽימִינ֗וֹ לְרַד־לְפָנָיו֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם וּמָתְנֵ֥י מְלָכִ֖ים אֲפַתֵּ֑חַ לִפְתֹּ֤חַ לְפָנָיו֙ דְּלָתַ֔יִם וּשְׁעָרִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִסָּגֵֽרוּ׃

{see Wickes' discussion of this pasuk here.} {The trup at mechon-mamre lacks the vertical bar which would clearly mark this as munach Legarmeih.}
and sometimes two zarkas come one after the other, and a single segolah comes after them, such as (I Shmuel 2:15)
גַּם֮ בְּטֶרֶם֮ יַקְטִר֣וּן אֶת־הַחֵלֶב֒ וּבָ֣א ׀ נַ֣עַר הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְאָמַר֙ לָאִ֣ישׁ הַזֹּבֵ֔חַ תְּנָ֣ה בָשָׂ֔ר לִצְל֖וֹת לַכֹּהֵ֑ן וְלֹֽא־יִקַּ֧ח מִמְּךָ֛ בָּשָׂ֥ר מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל כִּ֥י אִם־חָֽי׃


And so too the Pasek is not counted either with the teamim nor the meshartim. It is not enumerated with the teamim for it only comes with the mesharet, such as Divrei Hayamim I 21:3:
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יוֹאָ֗ב יוֹסֵף֩ יְהוָ֨ה עַל־עַמּ֤וֹ ׀ כָּהֵם֙

and we said above that this {cantillation mark on amo, before the pasek} shofar mahpach is of the mesharetim. And further, in Bereishit 18:21,
עָשׂ֣וּ ׀ כָּלָ֑ה
which is a shofer illui, which is from the mesharetim.

And if a person whispers to you that "does not the legarmeih come with a shofar?" {That is, it is a munach sign followed by a pasek sign.} This is its way, that you never find a legarmeih except with a shofar and a {vertical} stroke between two words, and all legarmeihs in Scripture come before a revia, such as (Devarim 31:20)
כִּֽי־אֲבִיאֶ֜נּוּ אֶֽל־הָאֲדָמָ֣ה ׀ אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי לַֽאֲבֹתָ֗יו
except for in a few places which are enumerated in this work, in the gate of legarmeih. And {meanwhile}, pasek is never found before revia (in the middle of a verse) except for in one place in Scriptures, which is (Yeshaya 42:5)
כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר הָאֵ֣ל ׀ יְהוָ֗ה בּוֹרֵ֤א הַשָּׁמַ֨יִם֙

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* {As I noted above, our standard trup is different than he gives above. He explains:} So is the melody of this verse in manuscripts and careful version, and so is primary {what is should be}: Koresh with a munach legarmeih, for we never place two munachs to a revii if the first one is not a munach legarmeih, as is explained later on in the second gate, chapter one, in the law of revii.

5 comments:

Zvika said...

Where can I pick this sefer up? As a Ba'al Koreh, I'd like to get a copy for my own personal interests...

joshwaxman said...

you can follow the link on the first words of the post, "The Rules of Trup," and from there download the entire sefer as a PDF. Then you can print it out for yourself. Alternatively, and also from that link, you can go to one of the partner sites, which will print, bind and deliver the sefer to you.

kt,
josh

josh phillips said...

Hi, like the blog. was just reading your entry 'The Value of Learning Ktav Ivri' and you mentioned an alternate reading for the letters that had floating pieces, as being sourced in the Yerushalmi. Could you please tell me where to find it.
Much appreciated

Mississippi Fred MacDowell said...

Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah 1:9

אמר רבי לוי מאן דאמר לרעץ ניתנה התורה עי"ן מעשה ניסים מאן דאמר אשורי ניתנה התורה סמ"ך מעשה ניסים

Rabbi Levy said that according to the view that the Torah was given in r'tz script (paleo-Hebrew), the 'ayin stood by a miracle. According to the view that it was given in ashuri script (the square antecedent of modern Hebrew), the samekh stood by a miracle.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/r/r2a01.htm

It was awhile ago, but I think Josh (ie, the blogmaster of Parsha Blog) first called my attention to this.

Mississippi Fred MacDowell said...

Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah 1:9

אמר רבי לוי מאן דאמר לרעץ ניתנה התורה עי"ן מעשה ניסים מאן דאמר אשורי ניתנה התורה סמ"ך מעשה ניסים

Rabbi Levy said that according to the view that the Torah was given in r'tz script (paleo-Hebrew), the 'ayin stood by a miracle. According to the view that it was given in ashuri script (the square antecedent of modern Hebrew), the samekh stood by a miracle.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/r/r2a01.htm

It was awhile ago, but I think Josh (ie, the blogmaster of Parsha Blog) first called my attention to this.

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