Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Silberman, Alfred" <alfred.silberman AT lmco.com>]

        randall buth  [SMTP:ButhFam AT compuserve.com] wrote:

        > The broad equivalency of veqatal and yiqtol in its "verbal color"
is, and
        > always has been, very clear to readers of biblical hebrew. 

        After all the back and forth comments on this subject for the last
several years I found this comment very amusing. For those of us who are
immersed in Torah Study as a lifestyle and not as an academic subject this
statement was always obvious to me.

        For over 40 years I have been studying and reading Tanakh, Talmud
and the Midrashim with commentaries before joining this list. I was not even
aware of a difference until I started reading about it on this list. I can
assure everyone on this list that for the thousands of people who are
engaged in Torah Study on a 24 hour per day basis this difference is totally
transparent.

        Regards,
        Al