The Modern Havruta

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How to read the Torah - 3

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Rabbi Sam Millunchick
Dec 04, 2023
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Introduction

The text of the Torah is frustratingly written without vowels or punctuation.

This is on purpose, and is one of the things that allowed our Sages to approach the text as a substrate for meaning1. The unfortunate part is that it makes it difficult for a novice reader to get started, to understand how to read a particular word or parse a pasuk,…

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