tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post8248694343579994611..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Interesting Posts and Articles #225joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-69925400993476346442009-10-22T18:47:41.177-04:002009-10-22T18:47:41.177-04:00It's a sad commentary on our generation that m...It's a sad commentary on our generation that many of us don't have a mesora on how to pronounce words of Keri'at Shema, something that we do twice a day (at least), and that we need to check various Siddurim for the correct pronunciations.<br /><br />Artscroll/Koren have become our fathers/Rabbanim.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Very interesting about Ribbi Abba and Rav.<br />You seem to be correct that Rav was alive much later (born in 175 ce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Arika" rel="nofollow">according to Wikipedia</a>) than Rashb"i (died in 160 ce<a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/1417/jewish/Simeon-ben-Yohai-Rabbi.htm" rel="nofollow">according to Chabad.org</a>).yaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179304707239865515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-64711728665607145882009-10-22T15:11:53.534-04:002009-10-22T15:11:53.534-04:00>is there any discussion of shevas in Chazal
O...>is there any discussion of shevas in Chazal<br /><br />Obviously not by name, but putting that aside, after mentally surveying my vast knowledge and employing my erudition in all of rabbinic literature I don't think there is.<br /><br />In fact, I once posted (mainly cribbing ideas from an HUCA article by Werner Weinberg) which called into question about whether there were BGDKPT kefulot, or if there were, were they necessarily even aware of it.<br /><br />http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-did-rava-pronounce-hebrew.html<br />http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-did-rava-pronounce-hebrew-ii_06.html<br /><br />I wish I could rewrite these posts now, as I think I know a bit more about it, but the basic premise still stands. I would guess that they were likely to have been much less aware of the sheva than the kefulot. Of course this probably also ties in with the age of the Sefer Yetzirah.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-63757204299693150672009-10-22T14:53:47.390-04:002009-10-22T14:53:47.390-04:00i was thinking in terms of the latter, but now tha...i was thinking in terms of the <b>latter</b>, but now that you mention it, the former is also an interesting question. is there any discussion of shevas in Chazal, such that they would have been thinking in terms of this?<br /><br />kt,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-65010514530420154032009-10-22T14:43:41.905-04:002009-10-22T14:43:41.905-04:00>I wonder if such focus on whether a particular...>I wonder if such focus on whether a particular sheva merachef should be na or nach, where either means precisely the same thing, is really what Chazal meant<br /><br />You mean if there were two such vowels, or at least two which had been isolated and identified, in the time of Chazal? Or that it doesn't matter, because it simply isn't the sort of didkuk in pronunciation they meant.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.com