Art of Torah Cantillation, The - A Step-by-Step Guide to Chanting Torah
You can chant Torah!
This unique, step-by-step book and compact disc package will lead the novice through each step of learning how to chant Torah. Divided into 13 lessons and additional useful appendices and bibliography, the book allows the reader to "self-teach" the important principles of Torah cantillation. The only pre-requisite for this course of learning is a basic ability to read Hebrew and a willingness to learn! It is a perfect selection for B'nai Mitzvah students, beginning learners, and for adult education courses.
Step-by-step exercises and instructions CD of recordings correspond with written exercises Includes both male and female voices on recording Includes glossary, list of parashiyot, High Holy Day cantillation and more!
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The URJ Press is proud to release the new Hebrew program for your day school!
Features of Chaverim B'Ivrit:
Full color
Written by Mira Owen, author of HaKol Chadash and Netzanim, with a team of Hebrew curriculum specialists
Developed for the liberal day school environments, including selections from Jewish source texts and tefilla.
Based on the most current understanding of language acquisition in children including the need to transfer and apply learning in new contexts and situations
Develops active language production in children
Child-centered with special attention to the beyond-the-classroom interests and needs of students
Use of multiple genres including stories, conversations, telephone conversations, poems, songs, albums, journals, bulletin board notices, and so forth
Teachers guide at beginning of each level with further teacher instructions at the bottom of each page of the student materials
Adaptable for diverse levels of learning
Field-tested in the United States
Age appropriate stories take into account Jewish identity development and diaspora Judaism
