Torah and Haftarah

Below you find:

• berachot for aliya l’Torah
• berachot for Haftarah
• call-up for the 1st aliya (kohen)
• some misheberachs
• yizkor
• trope (melody) for Torah
• trope (melody) for Haftara

All texts are in the LJG-siddur for Shabbat. The numbers refer to the page in the siddur.
The recordings of the texts are in male form. In female form the melody stays the same. In misheberachs and yizkor only the text changes, not the melody.

Trope for Torah on Shabbat

“The Bible should be read in public, and made understood to its listeners in musical and sweet tones. And he who reads the Torah without tune, shows disregard for it, and its vital values and laws.” (Talmud B. Megilla 32a)

The Torah reading (layning) contains the teamim (trope) signs as we use in our Dutch Liberal congregations, according to the West-European Ashkenaz tradition. These are the same for Shabbat and Shalosh Regalim.

Every ta’am has a melody. In general two or more teamim form a combination. Different combinations of teamim in a text form the trope. See below for the sheet music of these combinations.

SHEETMUSIC

Torah trope: overview of the teamim combinations (pdf)

RECORDINGS

Teamiem combinations as they are in the texts:
01 mercha tipcha moenach etnachta
02 mercha tipcha mercha sof-pasoek
03 mercha tipcha mercha sof-pasoek At the end of an aliya.
04 kadma mapach pasjta moenach katon
05 moenach mapach pasjta moenach katon
06 jetiev moenach katon
07 zakef-gadol
08 kadma-katon In one word.
09 darga tewier
10 mercha tewier
11 kadma darga tewier
12 kadma mercha tewier
13 moenach darga tewier
14 moenach rewie’a
15 moenach legarme moenach rewie’a
16 kadma we’azla
17 kadma geresj
18 geresj
19 moenach gersjajiem
20 moenach teliesja-ketana
21 moenach teliesja-gedola
22 moenach pazer
23 moenach zarka moenach segol
24 darga mercha kefoela
25 sjalsjelet
26 jerach ben jomo karne fara

Trope for Haftarah on Shabbat

Torah trope on High Holidays

SHEETMUSIC

According to the Dutch Ashkenasi tradition:
Torah trope for the High Holidays (pdf)
The ‘sof pasuk’ in the last line should be sung at the end of each aliyah.

RECORDING

Torah trope for the High Holidays mp3 (Eli Schleifer)