HHD torah reading
Sep. 14th, 2005 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI'll be chanting torah for Rosh Hashana this year. Nifty! The portion is the Akeidah (the binding of Isaac); I get the climax. Which I will read in front of 900 people, give or take. Fortunately -- near as I can tell -- that sort of thing doesn't make me nervous any more.
It's just as well I didn't get Yom Kippur after all. I'd been hoping for that to allow more time to learn the portion (Rosh Hashana is in a bit under three weeks), but I'd forgotten that I'm reading on the Shabbat two days after Yom Kippur. Yes, I think Rosh Hashana will be better spacing. :-) (On the other hand, Ha'azinu, that Shabbat portion, has got to be the easiest portion out there, so it wouldn't have been a show-stopper.)
The book of B'reishit (Genesis) overall seems to be easier to learn than much of the rest of the Torah. I should remember that when choosing portions in the future, when looking at corner cases (i.e. end of D'varim versus beginning of B'reishit, and end of B'reishit versus beginning of Sh'mot.) Sometimes a week or two makes a real difference.
It's just as well I didn't get Yom Kippur after all. I'd been hoping for that to allow more time to learn the portion (Rosh Hashana is in a bit under three weeks), but I'd forgotten that I'm reading on the Shabbat two days after Yom Kippur. Yes, I think Rosh Hashana will be better spacing. :-) (On the other hand, Ha'azinu, that Shabbat portion, has got to be the easiest portion out there, so it wouldn't have been a show-stopper.)
The book of B'reishit (Genesis) overall seems to be easier to learn than much of the rest of the Torah. I should remember that when choosing portions in the future, when looking at corner cases (i.e. end of D'varim versus beginning of B'reishit, and end of B'reishit versus beginning of Sh'mot.) Sometimes a week or two makes a real difference.
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Date: 2005-09-16 03:26 am (UTC)