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The name of the sedra

V’ISHA GRUSHA MEI’ISHA LO YI’KACHU…
... and a woman divorced from her husband… Classic example of the significance of sounding the MAPIK HEI. ISHA = woman. ISHAHHH = her husband. Without aspirating the HEI with the dot, the meaning changes.
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EILAH MOADEI HASHEM MIKRAEI KODESH ASHER TIK’R’U OTAM B’MO’A’DAM:

This pasuk from Parshat Emor is said by some in the Yom Tov daytime Kiddush. Furthermore, the phrase MIKRA’EI KODESH, which occurs three times in the Portion of the Festivals (in Emor), finds itself in the Friday night Kiddush.
The word MIKRA’EI by itself should be accented on the last syllable, MILRA. By the rule of NASOG ACHOR, the accent should have receded to the next-to the last syllable in the above phrase, because the following word is MIL’EIL.
mik-ra-EI should become mik-RA-ei KO-desh - a classic example of NASOG ACHOR.
But it doesn’t happen here. mik-ra-EI stays MILRA, and the phrase reads mik-ra-EI KO-desh. This is not as smoothe to say or hear as mik-RA-ei KO-desh would have been. But NASOG ACHOR does not happen here (for some unknown* reason).
If you are trying to fine-tune your pronunciation of Hebrew, pay atten- tion to how you and others actually say mik-ra-EI KO-desh and try to do it correctly.
* Unknown to those who don’t know a reason

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