Sof Pasuk: The Torah Reading Podcast: Recent Episodes
Donny Rose
Donny Rose hosts a weekly podcast discussing the do's and don'ts of how to read this week's parasha.
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A double keves yayin and bad a report.
Follow along in Bemidbar 14:34-35, 15:38, 14:37.
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Introducing the dagesh chazak game.
Follow along in 8:1-7.
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A special edition on occasion of dedicating a new sefer torah.
Follow along in Shemot 15:21, Devarim 31:19, Devarim 33:29, Shemot 15:11, Bereshit 44:18, Devarim 8:8-9, and Bereshit 18:19.
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Who really was Elyasaf's father? And what's going on with so much munach?
Follow along in Bemidbar 1:14, 2:14, Bereshit 10:4, Divrei Hayamim Alef 1:7, Bemidbar 3:4, Devarim 24:4
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A sneaky keves yayin and a mistake from last year.
Follow along in Vayrika 25:30 and 25:14.
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Looking at what's hiding in plain sight.
Follow along in Vayrika 23:32, 16:31, 23:3, 22:21, 21:19, 21:10, 24:14.
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The consequences of noticing an unusual formulation.
Follow along in Vayrika 20:2, 9:2-3, 17:2-9, 20:6, 19:31, 24:13-14, Shemot 22-38.
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Definitely articles.
Follow along in Vayirka 13:10, 12, 31, 32, 3, 11, 9, 45, 47.
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Is it good? It is good.
Follow along in Vayrika 10:19, Bereshit 18:21, 37:32.
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Or not.
Follow along in Shir Hashirim 2:7, 3:5, 8:4, 4:10, Melachim Alef 12:16, Shmuel Bet 20:1, Shir Hashirim 5:8, 5:9.
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A cautionary tale on column layout, a favorite pasuk, and fun with frames for Chag Hamatzot.
Follow along in Vayikra 7:27, 8:21, Shemot, 12:34-36.
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A pair of synonyms you may not have noticed.
Follow along in Vayrika 1:10, 1:-12, 4:1-2, 5:14-15, 5:20-21.
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Figuring out how to start the day.
Follow along in Shemot 11:18, Vayrika 23:5-6, 23:32, Bereishit 1:5.
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A delicious keves yayin and some nitpicking for Para.
Follow along in Shemot 35:35, Bemidbar 19:6, 19:21, Yechezkel 36:23.
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A keves yayin special, and a good example of parsing relative clauses.
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An usual parsing of an infinitive absolute and what it could mean.
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An anomly, an unusual construct, and a good use case of the nasog achor.
Follow along in Shemot 18:26, 18:22, Rut 2:8, Shemot 20:15, 19:1, Bereshit 16:3, Shemot 20:19.
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Mistakes, not just but also.
Follow along in Shemot 10:25, Bereishit 24:25, Shemot 10:21, Bereishit 1:3, 1:6, Shemot 10:22, 11:2.
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Musical interventions with Moshe Ginsberg.
Follow along in Bereshit 48:16, 47:31, 27:5-6.
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Double meaning in broken frames.
Follow along in Bereshit 45:6-7, 45:8-27, 45:28, 44:18, 47:12-14.
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Getting strong on the dagesh chazak.
Follow along in Bereishit 41:1, 41:9, 41:4, 41:38, 41:9, 41:50, 41:8, 41:31, 41:51, 42:7.
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A little more on parsing.
Folow along in Bereishit 29:32-35.
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Eating up more mistakes.
Follow along in Bereshit 24:54, 30:25, 27:19, 27:25, 27:4.
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Cautionary tails from mistakes of years past.
Follow along in Bereshit 23:14, 24:25, 24:49, 24:54, 30:25.
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On the range with "el" and the sensitivity to narrative.
Follow along with Bereshit 18:7, 20:2, 19:8, 20:7, 20:17.
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Why I avoid reading Lech Lecha, and a parsing so unusual is godly.
Follow along in Bereishit 11:29, 12:5, 12:6, 13:13, Yona 3:3.
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Some classic examples and one unusual form.
Follow along in Bereshit 8:3, 8:5, 8:7, 8:22, 8:8, 10:10, 8:12, Shemot 19:13.
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Getting to know the boring parts.
Follow along in Bereshit 5:1, 5:6, 5:32, 6:1, 10:1, 11:10, 1:1, 1:3, 5:2, 2:4.
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Knowing, names, and revelations.
Follow along in Shemot 33:13, 17, Bereshit 1:5, 2:20, Shemot 3:13-14, 33:19, 34:5, Bereshit 12:8.
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Hashem is (or it, will be?) sanctified with righteousness.
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Pronouncing the patah genuva, alternative forms on "grapes," and a cautionary tale of confusing a pashta for a kadma.
Follow along in Devarim 32:15, 32, 47.
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A kiddush for Rosh Hashana from Yotam Segel. Follow him on Facebook, here.
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Three things that catch my attention in Nitzavim-Vayelech.
Follow along in Devarim 29:19, 31:2, 29:11, 30:19.
The forms for "son," and the known and unknowns of the telisha gedola.
Follow along in Devarim 21:18, 16, 25:2, Yona 4:10, Devarim 21:21, 22:21.
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The lengthening of the prepositional lamed, and a cautionary tale for Bible scholars.
Follow along in Devarim 17:8, 17:1, Bereshit 1:6, Yeshayahu 28:10, 52:2.
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The late breaking etnachta.
Follow along in Devarim 14:21, 11:21, 22:28.
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Unexpected starts and stops.
Follow along in Devarim 8:15, Shemot 30:3, Devarim 7:15, Bereishit 30:35, 47:14, Devarim 11:4.
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Parsing examples: annoying, satisifying, and complicated.
Follow along in Devarim 6:6-7, 5:29, Yeshayahu 40:13.
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Watching the pauses in Chapter 3, especially if you are using a different tune.
Follow along in Eicha 3:55, 3:64, 3:59 and Bereshit 27:19.
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A mysterious dagesh chazak at the beginning of word.
Follow along in Devarim 2:24, 1:22, Tehillim 118:25, Shemot 12:31, 12:15.
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A karnei para quick refresher (see the full treatment here and here), better parsing in the better manuscripts, and a theory to explain trup inconsistency.
Follow along in Bemidbar 35:5, 31:6, 30:5, 8, 12.
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Parsing questions and qualifying syllables for a zaqef.
Follow along in Bemidbar 27:2, 26:12-13, 17, 26, 31, 38, 40.
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To infinitives and little bit beyond.
Follow along in Bemidbar 22:13-15, Bereshit 29:19, Bemidbar 22:37.
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A bit of trup mix up and where to put context setting verses.
Follow along in Bemidbar 21:34, 22:1-2, Bereshit 43:15, 12:9-10, 20:1, 19:38, 37:1-2, 36:43, 36:1, 35:22.
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The parsing of dangling subjects.
Follow along with Bemidbar 16:16-18.
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A counter point to the mappiq hay, and re-learning what's not a correctable mistake.
Follow along in Bemidbar 13:32, 15:28, 31, Vayikra 13:4, and Bemidbar 13:20.
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Stressing out about the stress and other ways to ways to make a fuss.
Follow along in Bemidbar 11:8, 10-35-36, 11:26, 8:21, 9:17-18.
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Musings from the landscape of Naso.
Follow along in Bemidbar 5:27, 6:9, 6:14, 6:16-17.
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Reading Rut, then and now.
Follow along in Rut 2:4, 4:11, 4:9, Bereshit 29:5, Rut 3:13.
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3! 70! 200!
Follow along in Bemidbar 3:46, 3:39, 3:43 and 3:48.
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Taking care on stresses and one of my favorite construct forms.
Follow along in Vayikra 26:18, 21, 25, 27:30, 32.
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Constucts just like Behar, an archaic form, and how I explain bond prices and interest rates to new investors.
Follow along in Vayrika 25:5-6, 9, 29, 25:21, 26:34, 25:51-52.
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More ways to parse, including on our favorite pasuk.
Follow along in Vayikra 20:17, 20:18, 20:22.
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The unexpected flexibility in how to parse the lowest level of the mafsikim.
Follow along in Vayrika 16:29, 16:10, Bereshit 27:33, Vayrika 16:12.
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Unusual frames fro leftover oil, but at least you can use that to remember the trup.
Follow along in Vayrika 14:3-4, 15-18, 27-29.
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Tips and trips for navigating the challenges of Tazria.
Follow along in 12:4-5, 13:3-4, 12:5, 12:7-8, 12:14-15, 13:4, 13:20, 13:23, 13:28, 13:30-32, 13:47, 13:53 and 13:58.
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Changes to the wav when connecting words with "and," the use of a wav to express a hyopothetical, and the (not necessarily) unsual form for asking a question that looks like the definite article.
Follow along in Vayrika 9:3-4, 7:23, 10:19..
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Taking care with the dagesh chazak and watching out for what the ritually clean man is up to.
Follow along with Vayikra 6:14, 7:30, Bemidbar 19:18.
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Moshe Ginsberg is back on the podcast to talk about why we have a hataf kamatz on מרדכי that ins’t just a sheva na.
Follow along in Ester 2:5, Bereshit 27:38, 3:23, Devarim 32:13, Ester 4:11, 6:1.
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Plenty of constructs to watch out for this week.
Follow along in Vayikra 1:9, 3:16, 1:2, 2:1, 1:16, 4:12, 5:9.
Nadav's insight on how the sof aliyot relate a theme and whether this week's parasha is Pekudei or Fekudei.
Follow along in Shemot 8:6.
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Talking about vowels
Follow along in Shemot 37:13, 36:34, 36:10, 38:18, 36:37, 35:5.
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Nadav joins me on the podcast to discuss an entirely regular parsing of "bread and water".
Follow along in Melachim Alef 18:4, Devarim 23:5 and Bereshit 14:8.
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Tani joins the podcast to share his version of the telisha, discuss an unusal parsing that we can't solve, and the time he was accosted for saying שתי as a sheva nah.
Follow along in Shemot 27:21, 28:6, 29:40, 18:8, 28:7, 28:26, Vayrika 23:17, Shemot 29:41, 25:9.
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Josh Lennon joins the podcast to talk about the difference in how to sing the telisha ketana versus the telisha gedola.
Follow along in Shemot 27:1, 25:33, 37:19 and Melachim Alef 6:6, 5:30.
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Where pauses are a matter of law.
Follow along in Shemot 22:2, 21:22-23, 21:36, 21:32.
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Plenty of keves yayin and a thouroughly embarrasing mistake.
Follow along in Shemot 19:18, 21-22, 20:4, and Yeshayahu 6:13.
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Parsing Shabbat properly, reading about who exactly was on the banks of the sea, and believing in Hashem and Moshe exactly like it should be.
Follow along in Shemot 16:26-27, 14:30, 14:31, Bereshit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, and in this podcast from Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: https://youtu.be/GKgIrnV9aBw?si=RguxwWm2_ke8S5Yi
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Remedial segolate training, a keves yayin, and unusual parsing accross pesukim.
Follow along in Yermiyahu 46:23, Shemot 12:10, 12:27-28, 12:21.
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Mistaken trup and fun with frames.
Follow along in Shemot 9:9, 9:19, 9:23 and 9:31-32.
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Lord, sir, and sirs, poor and afflicted, and a misplaced priest of Midyan.
Follow along in Shemot 4:10, Bereishit 19:2, Shemot 3:7, 4:31, 3:1.
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A tricky sort of wav consecutive and talking about what imperfects can, will, may, and should mean.
Follow along in Bereishit 48:7, 48:20.
How to have your daughter help you not make mistakes, and how no one is safe from inspiring podcasts... even if you are just giving a devar Torah.
How to drive me crazy and the mother of all paranthetical statements.
Follow along in Bereishit 43:18, 43:29, 44:17, 43:1, 44:1-6.
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Peretz and the pesik.
Follow along in Bereishit 37:29, 39:9, Bemidbar 7:19.
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Not being humbled by anyone talking incorrectly about the trup this week.
Follow along with Bereishit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, Bereishit 14:19, 47:15.
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An esquisite keves yayin and troubling one.
Follow along in Bereishit 31:10, 30:10, 30:5, Shemot 7:11, Bereishit 30:7.
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A refersher on the chataf patah on letters where it doesn't belong. And while we are at, a refresher on this week's Mesorah Advisory.
Follow along in Bereishit 27:26, 25:22, 27:29, 27:38, 28:9.
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Oh, if only.
Follow along in Bereishit 23:13, 17:18, Tehillim 81:14, Bereishit 30:34.
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Parsing from afar, different kinds of healing (or not), and the swearing by your life.
Follow along in Bereishit 22:4, 20:17, Melachim II 2:21-11, Shemot 21:19, Melachim II 4:30, Bereishit 42:15, Bemidbar 14:21.
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Three timeless mistakes.
Follow along in Bereshit 14:11, 17:17 and Yeshayahu 40:31.
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Moshe Ginsberg and I ask each other questions that we cannot answer.
Follow along in Bereishit 11:11, 7:2-3, Divrei Hayamim II 24:3, Devarim 11:14, Bereishit 2:4, 11:14.
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The cluster of psiks this week, and the phenomenon of the conversion of the azla.
Follow along in Bereishit 1:5, 1:10, 1:27, 2:21, 2:22, 4:15, 6:7.
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On Rashi, the mesora, and grammar.
Follow along in Devarim 33:23, 1:21, Daniel 9:19, Devarim 33:18-19.
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Tani Klein joins the podcast and we share our thoughts on Kohelet. You may think these are new ideas, but they aren't.
Follow along in Kohelet 9:2, 7:3, and 12:13-14
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Three things in Yona to help you get ready for Yom Kippur mincha.
Follow along in Yona 1:5, 1:11-12, and 1:14.
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How your instincts on the shva could fail you.
Follow along in Devarim 32:7, 28:36, Shir Hashirm 8:2, and Devarim 32:32.
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Keeping "shemo levado" in its place this Rosh Hashanah.
Follow along with Tehillim 47 and 24.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFlCibkONI
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Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast in a special edition for the 200th episode to talk about whatever we want to talk about.
Follow along in Devarim 31:30, 29:18, 29:28, 31:26.
A.Z. Idelsohn's books, refered to in this week's podcast:
- Volume 2: Songs of the Babylonian Jews, available for download here.
- Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, availble for purchase from Amazon (here) and others.
A clever infinitive construct, my light, and the holy/mighty of Israel/Jacob.
Follow along in Devarim 28:55, Yeshayahu 60:1, 14, 16.
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The number one and her father.
Follow along in Devarim 24:5, 21:12-13.
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A couple of good mistakes and a great example of how the music changs the trup.
Follow along in Devarim 18:14, 20:19, 21:3-4.
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Being careful on what you burn and destroy.
Follow along in Devarim 12:2 and 13:7.
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A land of wheat and also of barley, and why that awkward way of saying it shouldn't bother you.
Follow along in Devarim 8:8, 9:19, 9:11.
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Ariella joins me on the podcast to talk about her favorite terrible things.
Follow along with Eicha 4:9, 2:19.
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How the bias of parsing works for the mesorah.
Follow along in Devarim 1:39, 2:21, 2:40, 7:8.
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Wavs in quotes, fearing and seeing, and little ones.
Follow along in Devarim 1:22, 1:25, 1:29, 2:4, 1:39.
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Saving lives and letting live.
Follow along in Bemidbar 31:15, Yehoshua 2:13, Bereshit 6:19, Shemot 1:17, Bemidbar 22:33, Bemidbar 31:18.
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Annoyingly obvious questions to ask people to make sure they are paying attention.
Follow along in Bemidbar 28:16, 29:6, 29:11, 29:36.
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The double personality of Balak.
Follow along in Bemidbar 22:6, 25, 37, 38, 23:8, 24:9.
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An unusual construct, hitting the rock twice, and some mistakes from Moshe Ginsberg
Follow along in Bemidbar 21:15, Bereishit 16:3, Bemidbar 20:11, 21:19, 21:27.
Construct forms to be careful about and how I failed in the podcast's mission.
Follow along in Bemidbar 17:21, 18:21, 18:24, 18:3, 18:32.
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Three mistakes to avoid and closing the gate before dark.
Follow along in Bemidbar 14:12, 14:23, 15:39, Yehoshua 2:5.
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Nadav joins me on the podcast to share three things about his bar mitzvah parasha. Mazal tov!
Follow along in Bemidbar 11:16, 11:24, 11:17, 11:25, 12:10 and 10:9.
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One of my son's mistake from Naso, and one thing I learned studying with my son for his bar mitzvah.
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Moshe Ginsberg joins me on the podcast to talk about the Codex Sassoon and the mesora in Megillat Rut.
Follow along in Rut 4:20, 3:10, 12, 17.
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Counting and commanding.
Follow along in Bemidbar 1:46, Tehillim 19:9, Bemidbar 3:32, Bereshit 21:1.
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Definite articles, unusual forms, and important pashtas.
Follow along in Vayrika 25:23, 25:30, 26:34, 26:43, 25:55, 26:8.
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An egaletarian error, two ways to eat, and one law.
Follow along with Vayrika 21:13, 22:6, 22:12, 22:19, 24:22.
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Shortening these, an unual parsing, a mistake not to make, and a mistake that wouldn't matter.
Follow along in Vayrika 18:27, 19:2, 19:18, 20:11, 20:13.
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It appeated to me, a keves yayin, and a celebration of double parasha.
Follow along in Vayrika 14:35, 15:4, 14:52-57
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The difference (or not) between a chirik spelled with a yud or without.
Follow along in Vayrikya 9:1, Devarim 30:5.
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Four ways to be annoying at the seder.
Follow along in the Tehillim 79:6, Yermiyahu 10:25.
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A fiery discussion from the Sof Pasuk WhatsApp group.
Follow along in Vayrika 13:4, 6:2
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Three fresh mistakes.
Follow along with Vayrika 3:6. 4:12, 4:33, Bereshit 39:20, Vayrikra 5:10.
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A couple of mistakes and things that should happen in the future.
Follow along in Shemot 36:5, 36:38, 38:19, 40:3, 40:11, 40:14.
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A clever psik, quotes introduced with a pashta and an hilarious mistake in the haftorah.
Follow along in Shemot 30:34, 32:1, 32:2, 32:18, 32:24, 33:1 and I Kings 18:19.
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Follow along in Ester 7:9, 9:24, 7:6, 3:15.
A special drinking game edition for Purim.
My wife's two favorite pesukim, an obscure form and an almost understandable mistake.
Follow along in Shemot 28:34, 39:26, 29:35, 29:1, 29:12, Vayrika 9:9.
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Construct forms this week.
Follow along in Shemot 25:14, 25:10, 26:14.
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The dagesh chazak and some unusal words. Follow along in Shemot 22:23, 23:3, 21:31, 23:31, 15:9.
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The 9 commandments and what's in the frame.
Follow along in Shemot 20:2, 20:14 and 20:1.
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Being careful with the wav.
Follow along in Shemot 13:19, 14:2-4, 14:16: 14:22, 14:26, and 14:28.
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Revisiting on my greatest reading mistakes.
Follow along in Shemot 12:50-51, 12:28, 13:3, and 10:15.
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How I remember this week's most challenging trup.
Follow along in Shemot 7:8, 7:19, 8:12, 8:16, 9:8, 9:22, 7:27, 8:17, 9:2.
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Dual nationality women, huring home before sunset, and more parsing mistakes.
Follow along in Shemot 1:19, 3:15, 2:18, and 5:11.
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Vines climbing a wall and the mighty one of Jacob.
Follow along in Bereishit 49:22, 49:25, 49:24 and I Sam 28:8.
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The alpeh, hay and ayin with a sheva nah.
Follow along in Bereishit 47:11, Shemot 1:11, Bereishit 46:29, 42:24, 43:10, 42:26 and Bemidbar 1:10.
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What we can learn from where we end the aliyot.
Follow along in Numbers 7:12-83, Bereishit 42:19, 43:15, 41:38, 41:52, 42:18, 43:29, 41:14, 41:16, 42:28.
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Kadma and pashta confusion that just won't go away.
Follow along with Bereishit 34:8, 28:23, 37:9.
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What happens when you mess the trup just enough to make a podcast.
Follow along in 33:10, 34:30, 36:39 and 36:35.
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What may be happening with your young daughter and also my son.
Follow along in Bereishit 29:18, Shemot 28:13, Bereishit 30:15, 30:14.
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Looking for sheep wine and leaning into the tone.
Follow along in Bereishit 25:20, 26:1, 25:33-34, 27:33, 27:30-31.
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Drinking with the camels.
Follow along in Bereishit 24:16, 29, 62 and 46.
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Taking out a mistake from a bat mitvah, as promised.
Follow along in Bereishit 19:5, 17, Shemot 32:12, Bemidbar 27:17, Bereishit 19:12.
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Parsing Lech Lecha and some of our favorite pesukim.
Follow along in Bereishit 12:1, Devarim 27:19, Bereishit 15:3-4, 16:12.
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Was Noah a perfect tzadik? And why all the fuss around Arpachshad?
Follow along in Bereishit 6:9, 10:3, 4 and 22.
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Who gave what to whom?
Follow along in Bereshit 3:12, Kohelet 12:7 and Amos 1:11.
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A time to read and a time to podcast.
Follow along in Kohelet 4:13, Devarim 27:13, Kohelet 7:1,2,5.
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Hashem is not a perfect rock, don't be a loser and other ways to make sure you are helpful.
Follow along in Devarim 32:4, 28, Kohelet 5:13, 7:15, Devarim 32:38.
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A Sabbath of Shabbaths. But, if you are aren't careful, a Sabbath also of feet and of delight.
Follow along in Vayrika 15:21 and Yeshayahu 58:13.
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What I learned from my son's Hebrew grammar test.
Follow along in Devarim 31:10, 20, 29 and Shemot 5:16.
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How to stop yelling at the readers and other ways to be a good masorite.
Follow along in Bereishit 21:6, 21:3, Yermiyahu 31:6-7, I Shmuel 1:3.
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Choosing life and accepting oaths.
Follow along in Devarim 30:19, 29:11.
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Plenty of things to complain about.
Follow along in Devarim 27:19-20, 4:18, 26:11.
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My favorite mitzvah this week.
Follow along in Devarim 25:13-16
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The theme of Shofetim.
Follow along in Devarim 16:20, 21:9, 18:13, 19:10, 17:7, 18:22 and Shemot 8: 6.
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What people are complaining about this week.
Follow along in Devarim 16:6, 16:2, 12:11, 14:6-8.
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Two cases of unexpected parsing this week.
Follow along in Devarim 9:21, 11:21 and Shemot 12:15.
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Hebrew forms that sound Aramaic and the unusual "ge" in this week's haftorah.
Follow along in Devarim 3:23, 9:19, Yeshayahu 40:4, Tehillim 23:4, Zecharya 14:4.
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Ariella hosts a special edition podcast about guys, virgins and tunnels.
Follow along in Eicha 3:35, 3:65, Bemidbar 5:21, Eicha 5:11, 2:13, 2:10 and 1:15.
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Three keves yayin's to enjoy this Shabbat.
Follow along in Devarim 1:11, 2:32 and 3:11.
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My trivels with the travels.
Follow along with Bemidbar 33:11, 3, 5, 48, 49, 56, 15-16, 36, 27.
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Finally catching up on the haftorah.
Follow along in Yermiyahu 1:2, 2:2 and Devarim 20:10.
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How we end up with two pashtas in a row, and blowing your mind on the berachot for the haftorah.
Follow along with Bemidbar 26:58, Micha 6:5, Bereshit 1:11 and I Divrei Yamim 29:10.
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The pattern of narrative in Balak.
Follow along with Bemidbar 24:25, 22:22, 24:1, 22:15, 22:26, 23:12, 22:4.
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Be careful what you eat, especially because it may be keves yayin.
Follow along in Bemidbar 21:28, Bereshit 27:19 and Bemidbar 19:12.
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What did Korach take?
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A mistake you should make (but maybe you weren't anyway), a mistake that was made that really was a mistake (even though I thought it wasn't) and a grammatically pecularity (which acutally isn't that uncommon).
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Connectors, rhyming and their two teeth.
Follow along in Bemidbar 11:32, 12:14, 9:23, and 11:33.
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What learned teaching Rut, and two keves yayins to go with your cheesecake.
Follow along in Rut 2:19 and 4:11.
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A mesorah advisory and why it's hard to be friends with a meteg.
Follow along in Bemidbar 5:18, 5:19, 5:24, 6:23, and Vayikra 21:1.
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Going back in time to Bechukotai and how to remember when you don't have a darga.
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Why this week's parasha feels early (because it is), and what to stress out about in the Tochacha.
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A reverse keves yayin? Follow along in Vayikra 35:35-37. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
Two and a half cases of unusal parsing.
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Poetry in laws.
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A story of contrusts at the seder in Modiin.
Follow along with Vayikra 18:7, 18:2.
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Two places where the mesora does something unexpected in Shir Hashirim.
Follow along in Shir Hashirim 1:3-4, 5:8-16.
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How frames work with instructions.
Follow along with 14:9, 21, 10, 26, 24-25.
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The case of the missing mapiq.
Follow along with Vayikra 12:5, 13:4, 12:4-5, 12:7-8 and 14:46.
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Perfects as futures, subtle constructs and the Torah Reader memory challenge.
Follow along in Vayikra 9:4, 11:42, 11:36, 11:4 and 11:8.
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Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast to talk about the two types of kadma and azla. Also, an update on Ester from last year's podcast.
Follow along with Vayikra 7:19, 7:20, 6:3, 6:8, 5:4. 5:11 and Ester 2:18, 6:1.
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A worst kind of mistake and my least favorite.
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Follow along this week with Vayikra 5:4, 4:12, 4:29 and 2:4.
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How I know a good reader, and how I cheat on shesh.
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Three pesukim that are fun to read this week. Follow along in Shemot 37:29, 38:1 and 38:17. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
Three pesukim to be careful about this week and the (very little) intrigue on the different forms of העלית.
Follow along in Shemot 31:15, 30:18, 34:10, 32:7, 33:1, 40:4 and Bamidbar 14:13.
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Exceptions to the stress moving forward on the wav consecutive on words in the perfect.
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A double(!) keves yayin, showing and being shown, and how the mesorah understood spices.
Following along in Shemot 25:33, 25:9, 25:40, 25:6.
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Stresses to watch out for and a blasphemous keves yayin.
Follow along in Shemot 21:23, 22:23, 23:25, 23:27 and 24:5.
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How the Torah uses frames in the story of Bnei Yisrael at Har Sinai.
Follow along in Shemot 19:1,3,18,20 and 20:1,14.
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A correction from last year and another example of the yet-to-be-named mistake phenomenon.
Follow along in Shemot 15:11 and 13:17.
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A whole new type of keves yayin.
Follow along in 13:7, 12:15 and 12:19.
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The meaning in paragraph breaks.
Follow along in Shemot 6:1-2, 7:25, 8:12, 6:28, 12:51, 12:29, 12:41 and 6:10.
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Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast to talk about three topics from the WhatsApp chat, include whether the baby Moshe was a midwife.
Follow along with Shemot 1:15, 5:5, 1:1, Bereishit 46:8, Shemot 1:6, 2:3.
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A stressful change in meaning, and more reasons why I like the infinitive construct.
Follow along with Bereishit 48:5, Yeshayahu 60:1, Bereishit 48:11, 50:20.
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A cautionary tale of the kamatz. Follow along in 45:12, 45:16, 47:24 and 47:13.
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The 100th episode of the Sof Pasuk Podcast with Moshe Ginsberg. A glimpse at what we talk about when we aren't podcasting and an invitation to join us.
Follow along in Bereishit 41:26, 41:21 and Devarim 12:18.
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Watch your tenses and two sheep wines for your entertainment.
Follow along in Bereishit 37:25, 40:11, 37:9 and 39:17.
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The kadma, pashta and a very good (bad) example.
Follow along in Bereishit 33:10, 36:9, 34:14 and Divrei Hayamim Alef 29:10.
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Punching myself in the face and one of the most important pesukim in Torah.
Follow along in Bereishit 31:50, Shemot 20:13, Bereishit 29:19, 31:36-43.
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A mesorah advisory and the forms of eating.
Follow along in Bereishit 28:9, 27:19, 27:25, 27:4 and 27:31.
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Parsing what Avraham bought. Follow along in Bereishit 23:17-18.
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The psik and how to parse sleeping on the street.
Follow along with Bereishit 19:14, 19:16, 18:15, 22:14, 19:2, 19:5.
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What it seems like to me.
Follow along in Bereishit 12:7 and 14:12.
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Which one is the older brother, Shem or Yefet? And also, how the mesorah reads, "taraf".
Follow along in Bereishit 14:13, Shemot 26:15, Bereishit 10:21, 8:11.
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A mesora advisory and the parsing of Yuval.
Follow along in Yeshayahu 42:5, Devarim 30:31, Bereishit 14:13, 4:21, and 40:1.
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What to listen for in Hallel.
Follow along in Tehillim 113:7-9, 115:16, 116:13. 118:1,25 and 28:9.
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A vort for Yom Kippur and what makes Ha'azinu fun to read.
Follow along with Vayikra 32:13, Devarim 32:7, 13 and 30.
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The mesora's habit on constructs.
Follow along with in Devarim 30:31, Shemot 26:15, Bereshit 14:13 and Devarim 31:26.
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An update to the Modiin Codex.
Follow along in Bamidbar 28:18 and 29:1, and with the Modiin Codex:
The Modiin Codex
The Old Modiin Codex
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Two examples of the same words with different taamim, and why it changes. Follow along in Devarim 29:19-20, 26, 30:9, 29:7, 30:5, 7:1 and 11:29
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Space for paragraph breaks and answering 'amen'.
Follow along with Devarim 23:25-16, 25:3-5, 27:11-26.
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What to laugh at this week in Ki Teitzei.
Follow along with Devarim 22:22, 25:1, 22:9, 23:14 and Tehillim 23:6 and 27:4
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Correcting my two mistakes from last week. And also, where we end the 4th aliya.
Follow along with Devarim 12:10, Bereshit 45:14, Devarim 17:4, 14:26, Bereshit 32:22, Devarim 18:13.
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The mistakes that bother me most, exceptions for wav consecutive, and one for the shtickers.
Follow along with Devarim 12:18, 14:25-26, 16:2, 16:8,12,25, and 12:10.
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Hewing bold new fiery fire and what I will do or did with the wav consecutive
Follow along in Tehillim 29:7 and Devarim 10:1-4, 7:20
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Sof Pasuk breaks bold new ground with shemo levado.
Follow along inside: Tehillim 148:13, 34:4, 145:16 and Mishlei 31:31.
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The tunes for Eicha.
Follow along in Eicha 1:8, Ester 1:8 and Eicha 3:1-3.
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The sheep wine of Devarim and a case of a mafsiq reduction.
In this podcast: Devarim 2:16, 3:1, 1:13, 2:6, 2:28.
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The yerach ben yomo and karnei para from Yaakov Landman.
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Exploring the karnei para in Bamidbar 35:5.
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The best of Sof Pasuk and the best of mistakes.
Follow along in Bamidbar 28:14, 28:26, 27:12-23.
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The personality of Balak.
Follow along with: Bamidbar 24:25, Bereshit 32:1-2, Bamidbar 22:4, 22:22 and 23:12.
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A most common mispronunciation and beginning a new journey.
Follow along with Bamidbar 20:19, Vayikra 26:5, Bamidbar 21:9 and 20:14.
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Following the thread of the pazeir in Korach.
Follow along inside: Bamidbar 16:7, 16:14, 16:26, 17:3, 17:17, 17:21 and 18:17.
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Moshe Ginsberg is back to talk about the mercha kefula.
Follow inside:
- Bamidbar 14:3
- Yechezkel 14:4
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Another thing to stress in tefilla and a tough second look at pesach sheni.
If you’re following inside, we’ll discuss: Bamidbar 11:8, Devarim 2:13, Eicha 3:22, Bamidbar 9:10
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Recordings from Daniel Adler on kirvu and exploring pausal forms in shemona esrei from R' Yaakov Kaminetsky
Hidden constructs, marking 1 year of Sof Pasuk with a Sof Aliya, and remembering Amalek only once
Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast to talk about the 10 commandments. (Or, are there 9 of them?)
Answering your questions, three ways to open a quote and when we like to stop in the middle.
Correcting 3 big mistakes from the last podcasts; and also, Moshe Ginsberg joins me to talk about the gaya.
Grammar Geeks inherit the podcast. And also, "to you do": it's happens when you drink too much father wine.
Sof Pasuk's exclusive investigation into allegations of fraud: have some letters received a hataf patah when they shouldn't?
Adding a new vintage to our wine collection. Plus, the 3 ways that Tanach breaks form to tell stories.
More sheep-wine, learning to settle with prepositions, and it is the poor torah reader who blames the text.
My polemic against "aloha", fun with numbers and a game of whose older for the Shabbat table.
A shout-out to another podcast, the controversy of calling in Hashem's name, and whatever did Kain say to Hevel?
Why reading Kohelet is not a waste time, how to think about life when there is no life after death, and what a little birdie told me.
What is Hashem's name? Plus: another way to use the High Holiday Torah reading tune on Yom Kippur.
An Ashkenazis vs. Sefardit showdown and how to be strong and courageous in the face of Yeshivish. Also, inviting you to my shiur on Tehillim 47 next Sunday, September 13.
What makes a better manuscript, how not to read the tochacha, and a special invitation for podcast listeners.
An anonymous contributor helps me find mistakes, and why I don't repeat "zeicher" (and you shouldn't either).
My favorite child helps me with material for this week's podcast during these unprecedented times.
One of the greatest reading mistakes of all time, my own personal mistake, and what to do if your favorite child missed last week's podcast.
Answering important questions, like: "What does Hashem want from us anyway?" and "Who is my favorite child?"
Never ending or never filling God's kindness, favorite laments (if you can have such a thing), and every day is a good except for today.
The mistakes I heard (or saw) at mincha yesterday... and how many commandments are there anyway?
Reading the hardest pasuk in the parasha and decoding large, many and tall conjunctions.
Yet another favorite pasuk and what happens when you correct me when I don't make a mistake.
Tackling controversy with why I don't think you can say, "Hashem will die" even if you try, but how it would be possible to send Chaim to the realm of the dead if you aren't careful.
How to read what popularist spies have to say, and parsing adjectives on construct chains.
Exploring the often wondered, but rarely discussed differences between: "holy" and "holy".
Special edition podcast for Shavuot: how to "yes" in Tanach, and what's really so great about Rut anyway?
How to apply propretonic reduction in the desert, and the winner of this week's favorite pasuk competition.
What to stop correcting in Tazria Metzora, and the best way to disinfect your home in biblical times.
Thinking about blood on your ears and the correct way to say, "Next Year in Jerusalem!"
A personal message to everyone who is in self-quarantine, and the two things I'll miss most by not reading this week's parasha.
The argument for repealing the quarantine; and also, exploring Moshe's personal relationship with Hashem.
The first episode of Sof Pasuk desribes the types of do's and don'ts that we'll discuss each week.