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Why does Sfas Emes start his commentary on Parshat Noach by saying he doesn't know it? Is the translation faulty?
The Sfat Emet isn't originally a written composition, but rather a record of discourses that were delivered orally. So in the year 5631 he just didn't remember perfectly what he had said (...
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Why in Hebrew masculine numbers agree with feminine nouns by adding ה?
There are many unsatisfactory theories proposed (see below), but I think, there is a good psychological reason for such a phenomenon. A person may understand if they ever went to big mixed gender ...
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Online Hebrew Lexicon for learning Tanakh
BDB on safaria is very good and free, but if you want the best, HALOT is the most new with the latest research but it's not free
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דרך Segol or kometz under ד
If it's דָ֫רֶך it means the word is in pause, meaning that the accent is a disjunctive one, so it lengthens it. Sometimes a shva become a qamets or a tsere if it's in pause
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Is there a book / document that explains the proper use of kamatz katan in the Torah?
Something you have to understand is that, although קמץ קטן and קמץ גדול are written the same and have the same name, this is due to historical reasons, not because they’re the same vowel. קמץ קטן is ...
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What does ציר"ו stand for?
The term appears in some other texts. According to Meir Benayahu, "The Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem 1687—1747" [Hebrew], Sfunot 2 (1958), p. 173, n. 48, it's not an acronym but rather a ...
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Evolved minimal Hebrew pronunciation in halacha
Consonants:
ע* and הᵛ would merge into א, making them all a glottal stop [ʔ].
בֿ would re-merge with בּ^, along with פּ^^, making all three into [b].
ג̄ would re-merge with גּ*, which would itself ...
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Hebrew being Lashon HaKodesh, is the inclusion and exclusion of certain phonemes and sounds in the language significant?
According the to answer here Hebrew alphabet sounds were selected by Avraham avinu who knew 70 languages of the world. In fact, part of his mission to spread the belief in one G-d was to show that ...
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Does anyone have this paragraph from the Be'er HaGolah in English or Spanish?
This is a direct translation, to the best of my ability:
And this is like the Rambam wrote, in the eleventh perek of Hilchos Gezeila, in the fourth paragraph (I.e. halacha); that they (mistakes made ...
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Hebrew being Lashon HaKodesh, is the inclusion and exclusion of certain phonemes and sounds in the language significant?
First of all, Yemenites, Iraqis, and some other Mizrahim (hello) preserve the Minhag that developed in Late Biblical Hebrew and was widespread until the Late Masoretic Era, to pronounce all the soft ...
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Is וּכְתַבְתָּ֛ם in Shema with Shva Na or Shva Nach
Note: syllables in transliterations are separated by periods. Stressed syllables are preceded by a stress mark (ˈ). Long vowels are followed by a length marker (ː); all unmarked vowels are short.
It’s ...
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What is the Halacha if I pronounced הוליכך with a patach under the כ instead of a shva?
you didn't change a meaning to something else, so it is fine, but chataf patach under non גרוניות is just sheva with horizontal line indicating that sheva is נע and not נח at least according to תורת ...
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What is the Halacha if I pronounced הוליכך with a patach under the כ instead of a shva?
No, you’re completely fine. In the pronunciation of the Tiberian Masorites—who invented the niqqud symbols to reflect their own system of pronunciation—Shva and short-Patach were phonetically ...
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Silent aleph (no, I mean really silent)
Joshua Blau "Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew" section 3.3.4 Aleph (Glotal stop), pp. 86-89 explains regarding the letter and the sound of Aleph:
Aleph serves as a vowel letter in ...
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Is there a book / document that explains the proper use of kamatz katan in the Torah?
There is a new book called: The "Ahs" and "Ohs" in the Tanakh. It provides a simple methodology that distinguishes between Kamats Gadol and Kamats Katan for the entire Tanakh. ...
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