Purim Torah Reading in Tampa

Rabbi Uriel Rivkin reads the Torah on Purim 5767 (2007) in Tampa. By tradition the Torah portion is from Parshat Beshalach in the Book of Shemot (Exodus) 17:8 - 17:16. In order to Lain the Torah (read it in the traditional chant) one must memorize the melodies for the whole Torah as the Sefer Torah (hand-written Torah scroll) has no musical notation as well as no vowels. In addition to the congregation member being honored with an Aliyah, Rabbi Rivkin is flanked by a few people. One is the Gabbi who is responsible for calling congregants to the Torah and offering a Mishaberach (special blessing) to them on the completion of their Aliyah on Shabbos on holidays, and also helping with the reading. Each congregant honored with an Aliyah says the blessings before and after the reading and also remains at the Bimah (the table for reading the Torah) until the next reading is finished. By tradition there must be three congregants at the Bimah during the reading. The Torah reading is a central part of morning prayer services on Shabbos (Saturday) as well as on Holidays. A shorter reading service of only three Aliyot is done on Mondays and Thursdays during Shacharis (the morning prayer order). The shorter version is what we see here.

The public reading of the Torah is a tradition well over two-thousand-years-old, and the rules and the melodies of the reading are equally venerable.




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[knightsofstjoan2004]

Matthew 5:17 "Do not think I have come to replace the Torah and the teachings of the prophets: I did not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them."

[mesitampabay]

This Matthew was right. It is the duty of all Jews to fulfill the laws of the Torah

[760il]

i have a serious fact-of-life question that i want to ask mr. mesitampabay about, and i really need the answer as soon as it may be possible for you to let me informed on the subject, and any abscence of the answer or crossing-out-of-the-subject will be taken as a failure in giving valid and eroneous answers and statements on that fact of life: what was the reason that jews have rejected Muhammad at his first appearence while He was handling the Qur'An??

[mesitampabay]

Over 600 thousand men women and children witnessed the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. G-d says that his Torah is complete and that nothing can be taken away from it or added to it. We are complete with the Torah as it is written and has been understood by our sages.

[sala6a]

can you read the torah at home? i think it would be more spiritual to read it on ur own don't you think?

[mesitampabay]

This clip shows the regular public reading of the Torah done with a hand-written Torah scroll or "Sefer Torah.." Jews of course study the Torah's text daily, as well as Neviim, Ketuvim, Tehillim, Midrash, Mishnah, Gemarah, and countless Rabbinic commentaries—all of which are also Torah in addition to the five books. As the Torah tells us, we should study it in our homes and on our way.

[Lechemanddahm]

HalleluYah! This brings me great simcha to see and hear reading of Torah! Shalom Aleichem!

[LVCIVSTVLLIVSATELLVS]

Isn't الل Arabic for God?

(sorry, my computer couldn't write the Lamedh right)

[Genesis2Jesus]

Jeremiah 31:31-32 "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:"

[AnticDispossession]

@LVCIVSTVLLIVSATELLVS - He was a Nazarene speaker who spoke against both the rabbis and the temple priests, taught a strange kind of Judaism, and started trouble by calling himself a Jewish King in front of the Romans. That's politically speaking. Religiously, the idea of a man being god is foreign to Judaism and is suspiciously Roman in thought. I don't think Judaism had much to say about Jesus until Christianity spread. It was a strange cultural export.

[waynecolvin]

I think New Testiment Book of Hebrews is supposed to explain new covenant but I always had trouble reading it. Actually I was searching for silly Purim videos.

[LVCIVSTVLLIVSATELLVS]

(N.B. I'm Catholic) From what I've read, the Jewish views on Jesus is that he's a false prophet, his mother was conceived normally (not by God), he died on the cross, but he didn't come back to life.

[israelifaggot]

wow, thats true.

[michaeljacksonfan69]

oh wow. thats harsh.

[israelifaggot]

no, jews curse jesus in there talmud in several places. they say he is boiling in hell in his own excrement, they say his mother was a whore. look up the book jesus in the talmud by eric schaffer.or just google jesus in the talmud.

[michaeljacksonfan69]

OK i do not mean to be disrespectful but what are Jewish views on Jesus? do you guys deny him? do you believe in his teachings. your Torah reading reminds me or a Koran reading beautiful.