I am proud to announce that our student’s have learned 5 of the 6 Torah Trope clauses and they are now ready to demonstrate their understanding in the Torah Trope Challenge.  The Torah Trope Challenge will take place on Sunday, January 14, 2018. It consists of three parts:

1. Each student will chant the V’ahavta in Trope.

2. Each student will chant the Blessing Before for the Reading of Torah in Hebrew.

3. Each student will chant the Blessing After the Reading of Torah in Hebrew.

On Sunday, we practiced chanting the Blessings for the Reading of Torah as well as chanting the complete V’ahavta in Trope.  We will continue to practice as a class once we return from break.  In the meanwhile, there are several resources available on our blog to help your student practice for the challenge:

Class Recording of the V’ahavta in Trope: https://soundcloud.com/marla-aviva-bentley/trope-recording-of-vahavta

Recording of the Trope Clauses: https://soundcloud.com/marla-aviva-bentley/sets/torah-trope-clauses-1

Recording of the Blessing Before Torah: https://soundcloud.com/marla-aviva-bentley/blessing-before-torah-reading

Recording of the Blessing After Torah: https://soundcloud.com/marla-aviva-bentley/blessing-after-torah-reading

Additional Recordings of the Blessings for Torah with Hebrew and Transliteration: https://reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat-morning-worship-services-blessings-reading-torah

Musical Notation of the Trope Clauses: https://marlaaviva.edublogs.org/files/2015/08/Notation-of-Torah-Trope-21semxh.pdf

In the students’ folders are the rubric that I will use to assess them in the Torah Trope Challenge.  We went over it on Sunday.  Here is an additional copy: Assessment for Torah Trope Challenge 5778

Please encourage your student to practice for at least 5 minutes each day over break.  I look forward to seeing each of you at Hebrew School Conferences this Wednesday, December 20, 2017.

Chag Chanukah Sameach!