“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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