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As the companion page explains, each Decalogue has four strands of cantillation: the printed tradition (p-trad) and the manuscript tradition (m-trad) each have their own טעם תחתון and their own טעם עליון. The most striking difference between the four strands is how they divide up the span אנכי…מצותי into chanted verses. (This span is typically identified as comprising the first two Commandments.)
That page lays out those four strands and grammar-checks the p-trad; this page serves only to document to what extent Simanim's Tiqqun follows the p-trad. Along the way it transcribes two of Simanim's notes.
Simanim's Tiqqun follows the p-trad's chanted verse boundaries for the Decalogues, though not every detail of its cantillation — the one departure, at a single commandment of its Deuteronomy appendix Decalogue, is covered in the conclusion. In its Exodus (Yitro) Decalogue, Simanim's main Decalogue (p. 83) is the p-trad עליון and its appendix Decalogue (p. 246) is the p-trad תחתון. Since no digital Simanim exists, I established this by visually spot-checking Simanim against Hebrew Wikisource's p-trad. The two scans below show enough of Simanim's Exodus Decalogues to "diagnose" them both as p-trad by their signal words.
A note in the side margin of the Exodus (Yitro) Decalogue, on אנכי…עבדים.
| Source scan | Transcription |
|---|---|
| [ב] פסוק ראשון נהגו לקרותו כשמסיים ברביע כמובא בפנים, יש ספרים שנקרא כמו בטעם תחתון, כיון שע״פ המסורה צ״ל כאן יו׳ד דברות, כך: אָֽנֹכִ֖י יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הֽוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֥ית עֲבָדִֽים׃ [עשרת הדברות בלא טעם עליון בסוף החומש]. |
[{Verse 20:}2] {Regarding} the first {pseudo-?} verse — it is the custom of some to chant it as ending on a revia, as given in the body; {but} there are editions that call for it to be chanted as in the תחתון since by the Masorah there must be Ten Commandments here — thus:
אָֽנֹכִ֖י יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הֽוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֥ית עֲבָדִֽים׃
[The Ten Commandments without the עליון cantillation {can be found} at the end of the ḥumash.]
Notation: text in {curly braces} is my editorial addition; [square brackets] reproduce square brackets present in the source itself.
The note is worth reading for what it reveals about Simanim's own stance: its default עליון ends the אנכי…עבדים span on a revia — the nine-verse p-trad structure — and it files the standalone, ten-verse cantillation (silluq + sof pasuq at עבדים) under what merely “some books” do. So Simanim treats the p-trad structure as the norm and the m-trad alternative as the deviation — aware of the alternative, but not adopting it.
The mirror footnote, from the appendix's תחתון Decalogue (which Simanim heads only negatively, בלא טעם עליון — lacking the עליון), on the lemma אנכי.
אָֽנֹכִ֖י* יְיָ֣ אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וגו׳ כך היא הגרסה בטעם רגיל שפותח בטפחה אתנחתא ומסיים תיבת בסו״פ עֲבָדִים: ובכתר אר״ץ פותח בפשטא ומסיים באתנחתא, כך: אָֽנֹכִי֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הֽוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣ית עֲבָדִ֑ים. ולגבי "עשרת הדברות" בטעם עליון בתוך החומש:
The lemma is shown in blue in our transcription rather than boldface as in the original.
It isn't clear whether the mark after עבדים in the transcription is a sof pasuq or a colon; I read it as a colon.
אָֽנֹכִ֖י* יְיָ֣ אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ Such is the version in the ordinary cantillation, which opens with tipeḥa–etnaḥta and ends with the sof pasuq word עֲבָדִים; but in the Keter Aram Tsova it opens with pashta and ends with etnaḥta, thus: אָֽנֹכִי֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הֽוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣ית עֲבָדִ֑ים. And as regards the “Ten Commandments” in the עליון within the ḥumash: {see the main part of the ḥumash?}
On Simanim's citing the כתר אר״ץ (Aleppo Codex) here — what that citation can and cannot mean — see the note below.
The note contrasts two cantillations of the אנכי…עבדים span, both in the four-strands table on the companion page:
| the note's label | עבדים | אנכי | = strand (companion page) |
|---|---|---|---|
| בטעם רגיל (ordinary) | silluq + sof pasuq | tipeḥa | p-trad תחתון = m-trad עליון, through עבדים |
| כתר אר״ץ | etnaḥta | pashta | m-trad תחתון |
So the note has Simanim, in its own editorial voice, distinguishing two תחתון cantillations of the אנכי…עבדים span: what it prints and calls the “ordinary” (רגיל) תחתון — עבדים with silluq + sof pasuq, אנכי…עבדים as its own verse, its marks identical through עבדים to the m-trad עליון — versus the Keter's pashta…etnaḥta, the genuine m-trad תחתון, which it sets aside. Simanim thus knows the two differ and knowingly prints the newer one — another glimpse of the same self-awareness as the p. 83 margin note.
Simanim's Tiqqun follows the p-trad for the Decalogues, not the m-trad — fully as to chanted verse boundaries, though (per the first scope note below) not in every cantillation detail. The two traditions' most consequential divergence is over the opening span אנכי…מצותי — within each strand, a divergence of chanted verse boundaries, which can be read off the accents on the span's two signal words, עבדים and על־פני: where a signal word has a silluq + sof pasuq the strand ends a chanted verse there, and where it has an etnaḥta or a revia the strand runs on. Simanim lands on the p-trad side of that divergence on both strands: the p-trad עליון in its Exodus main Decalogue (p. 83), and the p-trad תחתון in its appendix Decalogue (p. 246).
One scope note: the finding above rests on the אנכי…מצותי span — the most striking p-trad/m-trad divergence. Simanim makes the same p-trad choice at that span in both of its Decalogues: the Exodus (Yitro) one and the Deuteronomy (Vaetḥanan) one, whose עליון main Decalogue starts on p. 208. One caveat: in the Deuteronomy תחתון, the p-trad and m-trad also diverge at the Shabbat commandment, but there Simanim (appendix, p. 247) follows the m-trad, not the p-trad. That divergence, though, is one of accents alone: the two traditions divide the Shabbat commandment into chanted verses identically, differing only on some mid-verse accents. So the precise extent of Simanim's p-trad allegiance is as the title states it: Simanim follows the p-trad's chanted verse boundaries without exception, but not its every cantillation detail. The scan below is that commandment, with three signal words highlighted — not the only words the two traditions accent differently, but three disjunctively accented words that make a handy shorthand for telling the p-trad from the m-trad — doing for accents what עבדים and על־פני do for chanted verse boundaries. In the m-trad, the signal words have, respectively, a pazer, a telisha gedolah, and a revia; the companion page's appendix has the full details.
Another scope note: everything above concerns Simanim's Tiqqun. The separately published Simanim Tanakh does not agree with it: the Tanakh follows the m-trad, not the p-trad, on both strands. Where the Tiqqun is p-trad, the Tanakh's Exodus main Decalogue (p. 119) is the m-trad תחתון and the m-trad עליון is in the appendix to the Torah section (p. 350) — both shown below. Its Deuteronomy Decalogue is likewise m-trad on both strands — the תחתון in the main Decalogue (starting p. 297) and the עליון in that same appendix, where Deuteronomy agrees with Exodus, as one would expect (neither Deuteronomy image shown). So the two Simanim editions genuinely diverge — one should not assume they agree.
The two editions also swap which strand goes in the main Decalogue and which in an appendix, as one would expect from their different purposes: the Tiqqun runs the עליון in its main Decalogue and appends the תחתון, whereas the Tanakh does the reverse — the everyday תחתון in the main Decalogue and the עליון in an appendix. And because this is a Tanakh, not a Torah-only Tiqqun, that appendix sits at the end of the Torah section — mid-volume, before the Prophets — not at the back of the book.
The p. 246 note cites the כתר אר״ץ (Keter Aram Tsova, the Aleppo Codex) for the pashta…etnaḥta cantillation. Two things are worth keeping straight about that citation.