Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Thanks Joseph. As I wrote, most Jewish synagogue-and-study-Bibles (Humashim)
will have the two printed seperately. By the way, in the ArtScroll (Stone),
which division do they use in the Ta`am `Elyon - are commandments 1 and 2
combined or separate? Is there any note on this?

Yigal
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From: "Joseph I. Lauer" <josephlauer AT hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:10 AM
Subject: Ta`am `Elyon of the Decalogue


>     It may help the discussion if you have a copy of ArtScroll's "The
> Chumash" (Mesorah Publications, Ltd.), which has the Ten Commandments with
> the "upper" and "lower" cantillation marks in separate sections.  Page 406
> has the Ten Commandments with the cantillation marks "used by the
individual
> who is reviewing the weekly Sidrah" (see the explanatory box on the bottom
> of that page).  Page 415 has "The Ten Commandments with the trop or
> cantillation notes used by the reader for the public Torah Reading on the
> Sabbath and on Shavuos".  Comparing the cantillation marks on the two
pages
> for the same words will show the differences between the Ta'am Elyon and
the
> Ta'am Tahton.
>     Joseph I. Lauer
>     Brooklyn, New York
>
>