![]() If I’m going to read the text correctly, I have to learn which vowels to put in which places – that means I have to understand every single word of that text. For those marks, I have to go to a tikkun or to a copy of the verses in Torah as in. The scroll does not have nekudot – the little marks invented by the Masoretes centuries later to tell us about vowels, pronunciation, and punctuation. The scroll is a close copy of the scroll from which Ezra read in Nehemiah 8. (I know, sounds boring, but trust me here.) This time, preparing to read from the Torah scroll (see the photo above) the study carried me deep into the grammar of the text. I’ve studied these verses many times, but with Torah there is always more to learn. This morning was last week in Jewish terms.) Pinchas contains the first part of the story of the Daughters of Tzelophehad, a story I’ve written about in O Daughters, My Mothers! I learned late in life, and I still struggle with it, but it is absolutely worth the trouble. While I was preparing the portion, I was reminded again just how happy I am that I learned how to read Hebrew. ![]() I read Torah at Temple Sinai this morning. Image: Numbers 27:1- 5 in one of the sifrei Torah at Temple Sinai, Oakland, CA. ![]()
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