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Re: Megilah 030b: Reading "Zecher Amalek"
The Kollel wrote:
>>Note also that in the Ashrei psalm, all Sidurim vowel the word as
>>"Zeicher" (Tzerei, Segol), which is the way it
appears in the Navi. However, the Vilna Ga'on, as cited in Sidur Sha'arei
Rachamim, makes it "Zecher" (Segol, Segol
). Likutei Maharich writes that this is also the pronunciation chosen by
the Radak, and that the same pronunciation
would apply to the word in the verse in Parshas Zachor.<<
Yeshayahu Hakohen Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
Dear Rabbi Kornfeld,
In the Haskama of Rabbi Haim Voloziner to Maaseh Rav repporting the minhagim
of the Vilna Gaon, he writes [translated by me]:
... As far as you wrote that one should read in Parashat Zahor ZHR with 6
dots' I heard from the Peh Kadosh that he read with 5 dots. I do not know if
those who heard [and reported with 6 dots] mis-heard and mistakenly reporte
wtih 6 dots or perhaps [the Gaon] changed his mind in his old age, Please do
research this issue and find the truth."
Thus there is no reliable tradition for the reading with "Segol, Segol".
When I was young this minhag was NOT observed neither where Rabbi Herzog -
First Ashkanazi Cheif Rabbi of Israel, nor where Rabbi Unterman - a later
Cheif Rabbi of Israel - heard the Megilla.
I, for one, think it is very sad that we do not trust our clear traditions
of the reading of any word in the Tanach.
Yeshayahu Hakohen Hollander
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