Learn to chant Torah with Cantor Ellen Schwab
We would like to create a standing group of members who would chant from the Torah scroll at our Shabbat morning service. To that end, it gives me great joy to announce a new Torah Trope class that will begin on Monday, January 7, 2008. Pleas call me at the synagogue if you are interested.
Students must be able to read Hebrew. We will begin with a bit of review if participants would like. Then we will learn the history, functions and melodies of the chant marks called T'amim. This word comes from the same Hebrew root for the word "taste." The creators of the system, the Mazorites, thought that the melody gave the text its taste.
Cantor Ellen