Two verses down.
Twenty-eight to go.
I’m finally getting this trope.
If this keeps up, I’ll get to do the maftir after all.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Are you memorizing the entire haftara? Or actually learning the trope signs? I’ve taught each of my boys their haftarot and learning the signs is markedly easier than just learning the melody for the whole thing.
Once you learn the trop, you can sight read the haftara. Once I learned the trop for my bar mitzvah (many years ago), I would do different haftaras at different times and did not have to study in advance. Since the Torah does not have vowels and trop, that has to be learned in advance.
One other point, once you learn the trop, you actually know more than just the verses of the haftara that you memorized.
I’m trying to do both. But I couldn’t get the haftarah down until the trope made sense. I’m having some trouble with a couple of the clauses, though, in particular tipchah munach etnachtah, and sometimes pashtah munach katon. (It takes me a moment to recognize that last one.)
I haven’t fully memorized them yet. I think the problem is I’m using my rabbi’s mp3 of the haftarah, and his pronunciation is different from the one I found online. I’m going to ask him to please make me his version of all the tropes and send me an mp3.
I’m sure that you’ll not only do both the parsha and haftarah, but also musaf (if it’s a C synagogue). Good luck.
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go to
http://www.kolkore.com
and order their CD. You can probably get it through Stateside Jewish booksellers.
I read the Torah regularly in my shul. But I bought my sons the CD when Bar Mitzvah time came. I never looked back.
Learning this – the trope system, and any specific passage – is rote learning.
Computers love to repeat things. Computers don’t go off key. They don’t get frustrated or angry.
I coached my kids and learned the halachot with them – and then they used the software for what software is good for: rote learning. We all benefited.
This program is excellent. With the click of a button, you can show/hide vowelization and cantillation marks, and play individual words, phrases, verses, and sections. You can also display cantillation marks according to their “grammatical” weight – they are used to demarcate major and minor clauses. So you have a bit of analytical learning as well.
Well worth the investment.
Does it have the haftarah as well? I can’t find it.
http://bible.ort.org/ has the torah readings and haftara…