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The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, Hebrew: הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" [1] (plural form: haftarot or haftoros), is a series of selections from the books of Nevi'im ("Prophets") of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) that is publicly read in synagogue as part of Jewish religious practice.
Most of the cantillation signs indicate the specific syllable where the stress (accent) falls in the pronunciation of a word. Music The cantillation signs have musical value: reading the Hebrew Bible with cantillation becomes a musical chant, where the music itself serves as a tool to emphasise the proper accentuation and syntax (as mentioned ...
Mahpach (Hebrew: מַהְפַּךְ, with variant English spellings) is a common cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of the Katan group, and it frequently begins the group. The symbol for the Mahpach is <. [1] Mahpach is always followed by a pashta.
On days when a haftarah is read (see Haftarah below), there is a final aliyah after the kaddish, called maftir. The person called to that aliyah, as well, is known as "the maftir." On holidays, maftir is read from the Torah verses describing the sacrifices brought in the Temple in Jerusalem on that particular holiday. In progressive synagogues ...
Mercha kefula (Hebrew: מֵרְכָא כְּפוּלָה, with variant English spellings) is a rare cantillation mark that occurs 5 times in the Torah (once in Genesis, once in Exodus, once in Leviticus, and twice in Numbers) and once in the Haftarah (for Behaalotecha and for the intermediate Shabbat for Chanukah, in the Book of Zechariah.)
The sof passuk (Hebrew: סוֹף פָּסוּק, end of verse, also spelled sof pasuq and other variant English spellings. It is preceded by the סילוק silluq in the last word of the verse) is the cantillation mark that occurs on the last word of every verse, or passuk, in the Tanakh.
Moses Pleading with Israel (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company) Va'etchanan (וָאֶתְחַנַּן —Hebrew for "and I will plead," the first word in the parashah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The tipcha does not have a separating value of its own, as it is in the middle of a set of words. [2] Tipcha occurs in the Torah 11,285 times, more than any other trope sound. Tipcha is the only trope sound to appear more than 10,000 times in the Torah. [3] The first word of the Torah בראשית (Bereshit) is on a Tipcha.