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From Alef Bet to Being Hazan Part 5: T'amim – Names, Sounds & Rules of Torah Tunes

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Rabbi Shlomo Yisraeli

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Okay, welcome. So, uh, as we said last week, we're going to try this week to, um, learn, uh, the tunes of the Torah as much as we can. I'm not sure if today will be our last class of the series. Uh, maybe we'll have one more. But basically till now those that were following or those that want to follow we've actually recorded the other ones this is officially our fifth class um or this is officially our fifth class um or like I said the first one's like introduction to maybe the you call it the fourth but uh for those that are following we we went through um a lot of the rules of how to pronounce the words the letters the vowels different rules of the sha and etc. Last last week went through a few I was last week we went through a lot in one class. Uh maybe we just a quick quick let me review. We talked about the shana when sometimes the shiva the two dots one on sometimes the shiva the two dots one on top the other it moves like in the beginning the word you move it a little or other times you move it a little it's called it moves sometimes it's completely silent like we said the first stops stops and the second one moves a little we talk about some the letter inside the there's a dot inside the letter sometimes it's it's there to make the letter is stronger to pronounce it more to stretch it out a little like

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  1. 0:01Okay, welcome. So, uh, as we said last week, we're going to try this week to,
  2. 4:07that's one of the purposes. But there we'll receive that there's other purposes. We mentioned already
  3. 8:46But this is where it starts to be a little um I don't want to say
  4. 13:26>> Okay. Between aliyah. But but when in the middle of aliyah where do you think
  5. 18:03this is one of the less frequent in the Torah. It's like a number four, but
  6. 22:40that go to the next word. Um now it it seems perhaps that there the the
  7. 27:22Okay. But the talsha, which is where the circle's on the right of the word and
  8. 32:03is actually one of those that people confuse is they have a an arrow an arrow
  9. 36:45the per olive puget at the end vanavo Oh, okay. Again, some usually don't search it
  10. 41:22it can mess like it it can like kind of um mess up the meaning. So

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