Trope Class #3 Administrative – Audio recording on – Slide handout – Classes on February 8, March 1 Next class is next Sunday (Feb 8) – If miss class, go to Can download slides, handout, and audio recording – Reserve Saturday, March 7 to read in synagogue – Sign up for individual meetings before or after class on February 8 Agenda for today – Tvir sequences – Revia sequences – Review and synthesis – Logic of Tvir and Revia sequences – By end of today’s class, you will be able to chant about 85% of the Torah Including most full sentences 1

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And Judah found a wife and her name was Tamar. Darga Tvir 9.If there is a word in the phrase before the word with Tvir, and there are two more than two syllables between the accented syllables of the word with Tvir and the word before it, put a Darga under the word before Tvir. for Er, his first born, 1.Divide the sentence in half. 2.Put Etnachtah under the last word in first phrase 3.Divide each phrase in half again 4.Put Tippchah under the last word in the 1st and 3rd phrases. 5.If there is more than one word before the Tippchah in the phrase, divide the phrase again 6.Put Tvir under the last word of the new phrase. 7.If there is a word in the phrase before Tippchah, put Merchah under it. 8.If there is a word in the phrase before Etnachtah, put Munach under it.

And it was told to Tamar Say- ing, is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” Merchah Tvir 11.If there is a word in the phrase before the word with Tvir, and there are fewer than two syllables between the accented syllables of the word with Tvir and the word before it, put a Merchah under the word before Tvir. “behold, your father in law, 1.Divide the sentence in half. 2.Put Etnachtah under the last word in first phrase 3.Put Sof Pasuk on the last word in second phrase. 4.Divide each phrase in half again 5.Put Tippchah under the last word in the 1st and 3rd phrase. 6.If there is more than one word before the Tippchah in the phrase, divide the phrase again 7.Put Tvir under the last word of the new phrase. 8.9 & 10. conjunctives

11 Revia before Tvir 1.Divide sentence in half and put Etnachtah at the end of the first division 2.Divide the first half in half again. If the 2 nd half is too short for a Tipchah, put Tipchah at the end of the first half. 3.If the segment before the Tipchah is more than one word, divide it again. 4.If the segment before Tipchah is still more than one word, divide it again. 5.Put Tvir at the end of the segment before Tipchah. 6.Put Revia at the end of the first segment 7.Insert conjunctives: Munah, Merchah, etc. And the people heardthe bad news, this (news), and they wept.

12 Revia before Pashta And the writing Was the writing of God, it (was), it was carved on the tablets. 1.Divide the sentence in half and put Sof Pasuk at the end of the second half. 2.Divide the in half again, and put katon at the end of the first half, if there is room for a Tippchah in the second half. 3.Put Tipchah before the Sof Pasuk 4.Divide the first half in half again. If a Pashtah won’t fit in the first half, put a Revia at the end of the first half 5.Divide the second quarter in half, and put a Pashtah at the end of it. 6.Insert conjunctives, here only Mappach.

Logic of Revia Before Tvir or Pashta sequence – Could be before Darga Tvir or Kadma Tvir – Could be before Mappach Pashtah or Kadmah Mappach Pashtah Revia represents a division prior to the Tvir or Pashtah division – “Stepping forward” to Tvir or Pashtah – Two level 3 sequences in a row – In contrast, Pasthah and Tvir, which are “nested” The first and only division within level two (unless following Revia) 13

Summary Logic of Trope Sof Pasuk Etnachtah Tipchah Zakef Katon Pashtah and Yetiv – Nested division before Zakef Katon Tvir – Nested division before Tipchah Revia – Stepping forward division before Pashtah Munach LeGarmeh – Division before Revia Merchah,, Munach,, Mappach, Kadmah, Darga 14 Level 1 Disjunctives Level 2 Disjunctives Level 3 Disjunctives Level 4 Disjunctive Conjunctives

What To Do Before Next Class Read your aliyah in Hebrew without trope Use translation to understand the meaning of each Hebrew word in your aliyah Chant the parts of your aliyah with trope that you have learned so far Listen to CD of Cantor Barugel in car or on phone or iPod Play trope on musical instrument Sing along with PocketTorah Trope Sign up for individual appointment with me 15