LJ codes

A couple people have asked me for codes and apparently not used them. I don't remember who you are. (Others have used codes with no apparent problems.) If I gave you a code and there was some sort of problem, let me know. If you're not one of those people but you need a code to create a journal, also let me know.

Behar

This morning David (the Torah reader at ToL) asked me how the portion is going about 10 seconds before I was going to approach him about it. I said I was having cognitive dissonance learning two portions at the same time (too many cases of "same words, different trope"), but we both realize that my chanting this one is completely optional. Probably what we will do is I will chant the first two aliyot, which I learned last year and can restore easily, and I won't try the third (the new part, and longer than the other two put together) until next year.

I'm a little disappointed in myself for not anticipating (and somehow working around) the problem, but I do think I'm doing the right thing. And I'm not making anyone else's life more complicated; David had to prepare the portion anyway because it gets read four times [1] and I'm only doing one of them.

Emor (the portion I'm chanting part of this Shabbat) is doing just fine, however. If I can just remember the correct syllable to accent on one word where I'm sometimes getting it wrong, everything will be just fine. And the "checkers" (who follow along in a text to make sure the reader doesn't make any mistakes) probably won't stop me for that, or trope quirks, so it'll be fine. (They would stop me if I actually used an incorrect word.)

[1] This Saturday at mincha, Monday morning, and Thursday morning all get the abbreviated portion that I'm talking about. Then on Shabbat the entire portion is read.