small victories

[cellio]

I 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.

Comments

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I think that's a victory, plain and cool :-)

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

I hope that you took a moment to be *really* proud of yourself :-)

[goljerp]

Cool! Pretty soon you'll be one of those people who can do torah reading with 5 minutes advance notice! :-)