Answer by Avrohom Yitzchok for Aleph with a Dagesh
To your question, “how would you indicate its existence while laining?”I have heard people try to express it in laining by pausing slightly between the “i” sound and the “oo” sound - i.e. reading it as...
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In his book on Tiberian Hebrew (pp. 135ff), Geoffrey Khan suggests that in fact, the dot in the aleph is to be pronounced as a doubling of the consonant, not simply as a sign that the aleph should be...
View ArticleAnswer by Alan Mazurek for Aleph with a Dagesh
I wrote a dvar Torah on this subject for this past Shavuot with some original chidushim, posted here:It All Started With a Little DotBy Alan A. Mazurek, MD First a little grammar lesson (so please bear...
View ArticleAnswer by Shimon bM for Aleph with a Dagesh
It's very common in some of the manuscripts - for example, the codex of the Prophets from the Qaraite synagogue in Cairo, which was written by Moshe ben Asher. There, it features in everythe occasional...
View ArticleAnswer by Avrohom Yitzchok for Aleph with a Dagesh
The HaEmek Dovor explains unexpected dageshim as an intensification of the meaning.Thus, in Gen 43:26 he says that:the dagesh in the Aleph indicates the strength of the bringing, to show that each one...
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In four places in Tanakh, our text has an aleph with a dagesh: Gen 43:26, Lev 23:17, Job 33:21, and Ezra 8:18. What is the significance of this, and for the first two examples, how would you indicate...
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