Quote for the day-Singing Gave the Sense
“The Talmud says that the Bible should
be read in public and be made understood to the hearers in sweet, musical
tune. And he who reads the Pentateuch
without tune shows disregard for it and the vital value of its laws. A deep understanding can be achieved only by
singing the Torah…and whoever intones the Holy Scriptures in the manner of
secular SONG abuses the Torah.” Abraham Idelsohn, Jewish Music in Its Historical Development, pp. 35-36, quoting portions
of B. Megilla, 32a, and Sanhedrin, 1019.
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