small victories
Mar. 12th, 2002 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI just, for the first time, correctly chanted my little chunk of Parsha Behar from the text as it appears in the Torah scroll -- no punctuation, no vowel pointing, no cantillation marks, tiny calligraphy. Yay!
Granted, it's one aliya of the weekday Torah reading, and in this parsha that's pretty darn short, but still -- it's as much as I did for the "adult bat mitzvah", and I learned it a heck of a lot more quickly this time and with much less help. I've got a month and a half to go; I bet I could learn the next aliya in that time. (I'm not sure I will, because it might look weird to do 2 out of the 3 and I don't think I can learn the third, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.)
And yes, I know I have to practice it periodically between now and then so it doesn't rot, but maintenance is easier than acquisition.
Granted, it's one aliya of the weekday Torah reading, and in this parsha that's pretty darn short, but still -- it's as much as I did for the "adult bat mitzvah", and I learned it a heck of a lot more quickly this time and with much less help. I've got a month and a half to go; I bet I could learn the next aliya in that time. (I'm not sure I will, because it might look weird to do 2 out of the 3 and I don't think I can learn the third, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.)
And yes, I know I have to practice it periodically between now and then so it doesn't rot, but maintenance is easier than acquisition.
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Date: 2002-03-13 06:42 am (UTC)