{"id":257,"date":"2011-09-03T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-08-31T23:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:21:50","slug":"what-difference-does-an-accent-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Hebrew Pronunciation: What Difference Does an Accent Make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must read these two blogs (a little advanced, a kind of confusing), but you might be\u00a0 mispronouncing these important words!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/Towards-Better-Davening-and-Torah-Reading-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/Towards-Better-Davening-and-Torah-Reading-1\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/towards-better-davening-and-torah-reading-Rei\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/towards-better-davening-and-torah-reading-Rei\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>V&#8217;<strong>a<\/strong>-hav-<strong>ta<\/strong> should be pronounced mil&#8217;ra (last syllable), not the almost universal &#8220;V&#8217;a-<strong>hav<\/strong>-ta&#8221; (second to last syllable). The accent actually changes the meaning &#8211; it should mean &#8220;and you <strong>shall love<\/strong> Hashem your G-d&#8221;, whereas the mispronunciation renders it &#8220;and you <strong>loved<\/strong> Hashem your G-d&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For more mispronounced Hebrew words, check this post:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/judaism.stackexchange.com\/questions\/5991\/words-often-mispronounced\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/judaism.stackexchange.com\/questions\/5991\/words-often-mispronounced<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must read these two blogs (a little advanced, a kind of confusing), but you might be\u00a0 mispronouncing these important words! http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/Towards-Better-Davening-and-Torah-Reading-1\/ http:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/tidbits\/detail\/towards-better-davening-and-torah-reading-Rei\/ V&#8217;a-hav-ta should be pronounced mil&#8217;ra (last syllable), not the almost universal &#8220;V&#8217;a-hav-ta&#8221; (second to last syllable). The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punctuation","tag-accent","tag-pronunication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}