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By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:07:15 +0000

http://bible.ort.org/ has the torah readings and haftara…

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:34:21 +0000

Does it have the haftarah as well? I can’t find it.

By: Ben-David

Ben-David — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:55:21 +0000

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.

By: chsw

chsw — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:45:58 +0000

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.

chsw

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:46:45 +0000

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.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:45:45 +0000

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.

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:25:34 +0000

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.