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Thursday night David gave me a tape of the Torah reading I'm going to do in a few months. It doesn't look/sound too hard, though I still want to learn rather than derive the trope interpretation. I had asked him to chant it twice, once using the names of the tropes and then once with the actual words, but he didn't do the former. (That seems to be a standard teaching method.) So I'll have to hit him up for that next time I see him.

At the end of the tape he recorded his phone number and email address (in case I had questions), and then ended with the word "b'has'lecha". I infer from both ccontext and the fact that I recognize "lecha" that this means something vaguely like "take care", but it's probably going to bug me until I find out for sure. Gotta remember to ask Dani. (Unless one of my Hebrew-enabled friends speaks up first.)

( Shabbat report )

I had a mostly lazy weekend, which I needed. I got some reading done, and did some boring chores today. I also caught up on taped TV over the last several days (well, except for the Earth: Final Conflict episode that should have finished taping 10 minutes ago). Shabbat services were pleasant, and Rabbi Gibson actually chanted the Torah portion instead of his usual reading, because it's a special portion (Shabbat Shira, the song at the sea of reeds).

That reminds me: Thursday morning I got a copy of the weekday Torah portion for Behar (which I'll be chanting over at Tree of Life in a few months). Now I just need to pester David for a tape. I don't actually know the trope system yet, after all. (He was supposed to make me a tape Thursday evening, but it didn't happen.)

Saturday afternoon was an On the Mark practice. (I prefer that these not happen on Shabbat when we can avoid it, but we couldn't avoid it this time.) This was the only day that worked this month, because Andrea lives 4 hours away and has a job that requires that she be there on alternate weekends. (Two weeks ago Robert and Kathy were away.)

This morning I finally asked David (the Torah reader at Tree of Life) if I could chant a weekday portion (or at least one aliyah of one), and he said he'd be happy to have me do so. (I've noticed that people other than him occasionally do so.) I asked for Behar, which is my "birthday" portion (so to speak). It's not until May, so I've got time to learn it. He'll make me a tape, and I'll keep working on learning the trope. Presumably when Rabbi Gibson starts teaching this that'll help, too, but with a specific goal I can also learn on my own.

This'll be neat. :-) I've only done this once before.

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