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First 5 Pasuqim Of Bereishith The Way It Should Be Read!!!
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Moshe92 on October 15, 2009, 06:48:51 PM ---One of the administrators from the Hebrew forum is a Yemenite Jew, and he makes a lot of videos of himself reading torah. Here is one of his recent videos, and you can see others in the list of related videos.
I was following along with a tanach, and I noticed that he pronounces the gimel with a "j" sound, and he pronounces a tzadi like a samech.
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There are a few different Yemenite customs, one in which they pronounce the "j" sound, and one in which they do not. I forget which cities in Yemen correspond to which mesorah. Rav Bar Hayim has claimed that the scholarship shows that the Yemenite tradition for gimmel is the original custom and that the "jimmel" developed as a variant custom.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on October 15, 2009, 06:25:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: Spectator on October 14, 2009, 02:25:29 PM ---What about nekudot that represent vowels? What about the difference between patch and kamatz, segol and tzere, etc?
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Again I am willing to go with the Temani on the Nequdot as well. For instance they do not distinguish between sagol and patah and I think Rashi himself said that sagol and patah are the same.
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Right it depends on the dialect of Hebrew. The Teymanim are the most accurate preservation of the Bavli dialect (spoken in Bavel). I'm not sure if the vowels are all correct, but they as a whole are the closest mesorah. The "Tiveria" dialect ( which was spoken in eretz Yisrael) had slightly different vowel sounds I believe, and it is said to be no longer a living dialect because no one pronounces it. You will find on the wikipedia page about Hebrew it says this dialect is "dead." But based on research of Rabbi Bentzion HaKohen in the sefer Sefath Emeth, Rabbi Bar Hayim has tried to resurrect this once-forgotten pronunciation, (he uses this 'Tiveria' pronunciation as do some of his students) which differs slightly from the Teymani pronunciation which is more Bavli dialect based.
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