Sponsored Links
Directory Sites
ORT website. Online bar/bat mitzvah tutor in English, Spanish, Russian, or via CD-ROM. Designed for individual or tutored students, offers direct cantillation tutorials, tutorial by Parsha (weekly portion), discussion of themes and full Arye Kaplan commentaries. Haftarah trope also provided.
www.bible.ort.org
The Leining website offers resources for those who read the Torah; included also are the special readings for Jewish Holidays, plus issues of interest to Gabbaim and Sofrim. Forum also active from the site.
www.geocities.com
A good introduction or revision tool, offering Professor Eliezer Segal's simple online Torah and Haftarah trope guide (Ashkenazi pronunciation) with midi audio files, suitable for revision or beginners. Cantillation signs are grouped into columns of connecting, separating, or pausing "accents", and notes that stand alone.
www.ucalgary.ca
Downloadable Real One/audio files for each regular trope, sung by cantor Pamela Sawyer. Haftarah cantillation is in an adjacent file on the index.
www.netivotshalom.org
Taamim (cantillation marks, trope), with dynamic large font text and audio recordings, for Torah reading in the Baghdadi and Spanish/Portuguese tradition; some special, some Yerushalmi (Jerusalem tradition) readings; some Maftir and Haftarot.
www.taamim.org
Free 2 MB trial download [can be accessed 5 times] of the Bar Mitzvah Personal tutor for Torah and Haftarah cantillation: text is coloured, marked, with cursor.
www.levsoftware.com
Rabbi Dr Moshe Sokolow presents Torah trope as punctuation: i.e., as disjunctive and conjunctive accents in dichotomic syntax and graded hierarchies. English article, Hebrew and trope inserts. Page available on the Lookstein Center Resource database at Bar Ilan University. Poor graphic quality.
www.lookstein.org
Online Sefer Torah - Sefer HaTorah Hamekuvan
Hebrew only. Entire Sefer Torah in scanned form, with Megillot, for those who know how to read from the Torah. Reading/cantillation notes and variations for various parshiot (weekly portions). Additional articles on Torah reading.
www.saad.org.il
Mpg3 downloadable audio files according to the Yemenite cantillation rite, together with full pdf graphic reproduction of texts for part of the Torah reading cycle [Shemot, Pesach, Rosh Chodesh, Shema]. Hebrew.
www.temani.net
Jewish National Library, National Sound Archive: Digitization Project
Digitized recordings of Cantillation for Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther) for the following rites: Alsace, France; Persian; Jerba, Tunisia; Yemenite; Oran, Algeria; Firenze, Italy; Sephardi - Jerusalem; Kurdistan; Izmir, Turkey.
jnul.huji.ac.il
Ellie Ackerman's pioneering, trope-teaching website: offers Torah and Haftarah cantillation marks online, with real audio, also downloadable (as zip files; electronic sounding)and musical notation for all ta'amim. Website includes: rare notes; Eicha (Lamentations); Megillat Esther; High Holidays.
www.ellietorah.com
Dov Goldberg's table of 23 frequent and rare Torah tropes, with English and Hebrew names, diacritics, and clear mp3 audio recordings in Israeli pronounciation and style (downloads). Helpful for students' home practice.
www.webaissance.com
Hebrew Cantillation Marks and Their Encoding
Helmut Richter's tables of Hebrew cantillation marks, structure and syntax, purpose; explains the different usage in the Bible for disjunctive and conjunctive marks; provides charts for the diacritcs, as well as for Michigan-Clarement and Unicode values (some of which include the diacritics).
www.lrz-muenchen.de
Beth El Sudbury - Tefillah//Music
Cantor Lorel Zar-Kessler's 12 introductory lessons to Torah cantillation for students and adults. Each page contains all contextual variations for a trope, with Hebrew names and diacritics in large font text, set alongside music manuscript and wav downloads (slightly muted quality; female voice).
www.bethelsudbury.org
Congregation B'nai Israel's cantor's three-year course in Torah cantillation, support site. To learn any parsha, browsers need to access all 3 levels. Each trope is read separately, not phrased; modern Hebrew pronunciation. Audio (zip) downloads for each verse or section (PC, I-pod). Verse tracks indexed sequentially, not by aliyah/title. Texts with and without vocalization (pdf).
www.stephanieshore.com