The Torah reading cantillations and their accompanying notes
Torah Reading Trop: The musical cantillation notes for reading the Torah
The words of the Torah are to be read with their accompanying musical cantillation notes. These notes are known in Yiddish as trop and in Hebrew as ta’amim.
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Joshua
Philadelphia
September 21, 2018
never learned this, very happy to as an adult, thank you so much Chabad.com!
Question: the playback ends at 1 minute 17 seconds "sof pasuk" (which I assume means trope to "end sentence").
What is written afterward (shalsheles...) ? Is that not also part of the trope? I notice different cantillation symbols which hadn't appeared previously. Is there a reason the recording does not address the final words from shalsheles to yerach-ben-yomo?
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Anonymous
January 1, 2019
in response to Joshua :
Those 4 are the most complicated ones, and also show up the least. shalsheles, for example, shows up only 3 or 4 times. yerach-ben-yomo isn't even known. not entirely sure why they weren't included, but that is a possible reason. Reply
Anonymous
Boca Raton
April 3, 2019
in response to Anonymous:
You can listen to Yerach Ben Yomo and the Karnei Parah on the reading for Parshat Masei. You can find a Mercha Kefulah is in Parsha Toldos, in the 5th aliyah. The Chabad Shalshelet is basically 2 Pazers. The Karnei Parah and a combination of the Mercha Kefulah and Telisha Gedola. It should also be noted that Chabad Darga appears to be slightly different than the regular Ashkenazi Darga. Reply
Adrienne Wasserman
August 22, 2018
I just came across "how to read Torah and Haftorah" with audio. The "suggestions" button did not respond, so I'm expressing my enthusiasm on your site. This is exactly what I need to practice my Hebrew reading. The pace works for me. Thank you. May I ask for more information (excuse my ignorance) of what will be on the Torah and Haftorah audio site? Obviously, it has to be a limited selection. I will also be using the Torah music trope. Thank you. Reply
Meir Kagan
August 20, 2018
Amazing, I’m 12 and I’m going to lain so this is great! Reply
Anonymous
Portland, Oregon
May 26, 2018
I decided to chant Torah Nitzavim and would like an example plus the trope signs and the musical notes for each trope I can play on the piano. Thank You. I should explain that my family married into a Cohanim family. All the members of my family are descended from Rachel Leah Cohen, the daughter of Yehoushua Leib Cohen, a Cohanim, and we have no relationship at all to another group that uses our name. Rachel Leah Cohen, my great grandmother, married my great grandfather, Aaron Leyba Subotnick, in Lithuania while Lithuania was under the control of the Czar of Russia. That is why I am doing what I am doing right now because of their influence. I want to emphasize that I am only interested in Parashat Nitzavim, Torah chanting only and do not want Haftorah chanting which has a different melody. I know the difference. Reply
Anita Lichtblau
Toronto
November 3, 2017
Hello, Could you send me the musical score for piano, so I can help my son? Reply
Dani
London
April 28, 2017
The LAST three Ta'amim
I have the music score for these.
e-mail me if you want me to send you a copy.
L'Shalom
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Gabbi
Melbourne
September 10, 2017
in response to Dani:
Hi Dani, do you know if they're sung anywhere online? Please email me the music or the recording via the editor
Thanks,
Gabbi
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Anonymous
Brooklyn
June 28, 2016
This is incomplete This is not complete. It doesn't finish off from shalsheles until the end. Please finish it off, thank you! Reply
Anonymous
March 25, 2016
The last line IN response to B from Los Angeles asking about the last verse: those last four marks are extremely rare, with the final three final found only once in the Torah. The fourth-to-last, Shalsheles, is simply three of pazeir (beginning of forth line) stretched across the word. The third and second I don't know, and I don't think there is even a Chabad tradition for the last one. Hope this helps. Reply
Paul Shapshak, PhD
January 3, 2015
Please answer as I'm a bit confused.
1. Do you have a file which shows the writtenmusic notes with corresponding Hebrew for the cantillation tropes?
2. The tropes in the above list do not correspond in toto with the list of tropes called Set Aleph, etc.
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Sam C
May 13, 2014
missing Parshios in Devarim
Hi rabbi Slavin,
Thank you very much for sharing all the Torah reading audios, When you get a chance can you complete sefer Devarim.
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David Niles
Phoenix, AZ
February 26, 2013
compliment Rabbi Slavin's chanting is very enjoyable. He is a "guten" bal koreih. Reply
B
los angeles, CA
April 9, 2012
where's the last verse? it's missing from the audio... Reply
Neal Walters
Dallas, TX
September 5, 2011
Possible Answer
This article on the Chabad website might explain it.
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Lionel Rabinowotz
Pinner, England
August 5, 2011
Trop Can anyone tell me where I can find the method used to assign notes to a specific word, or is it haphazard? Reply
Dovid
Clifton
August 4, 2019
in response to Lionel Rabinowotz:
New Jersey Tradition (mesora). The earliest documents we have are the Aleppo Codex and Leningrad Codex. There is obviously a correspondence in praying and enough, though sometimes it is murky. However, we know that Ezra set it up, and likely it was a technical off what was used since the time of Moshe. Reply
Add a comment...I have a question. Tipcha is classed as a disjunctive trop on Mechon Mamre's website (I can give you the link if you ask, comments won't let me put it in). However, on bible.ort.org it is not shown at either the start or the end of a segment as if it divided that segment from a different one. So is one of these sites wrong, or if not, why is tipchah classed as disjunctive? Thanks
Brooklyn It is a disjunctive. Examine it in context throughout the Torah. You will find that where the word meaning indicates connection there is almost always Mercha (or Munach when immediately preceding Esnachta). When it indicates otherwise, it is almost always Tipcha.