What is that young man doing: what is involved with chanting Torah? Originally published April 13-14, 2018
July 24, 2018
What does it take to chant a Torah reading? Let’s get to the basics. The text in the Torah scroll is handwritten by a scribe in ink on parchment, and the reader points with a pointer (a yad, a “hand”) without touching skin to the scroll. Now, in Hebrew the vowel sounds and consonant variants […]