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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalms and Sedarim
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:58:14 +0200

Dear James,

The sedarim are meand for daily reading, one seder a day. So the reader would go through the entire book in two months!

The intrduction to the Koren Tanakh, while not dealing specifically with the Psalms, does say the following: the division of the Torah into 154 sedarim follows the ancient custom of reading the Torah over a triannual cycle, one seder for each Sabbath (the present custom is to divide the whole Torah into 52 "parshiyot", one for each Sabbath of the year). Additionally, according to the Koren, the entire Tanakh is divided into 293 sedarim, which is the number of non-holydays in the solar year (that is, 365 minus 52 Sabbaths, 7 days of Passover, 1 of Shavuot, 2 of Rosh Hashanah, 1 Yom Kippur, 8 Sukkot and the 9th of Av). So, the division enables one to read through the entire Tanakh in a year of "weekdays", leaving the holidays and Sabbaths for their own assigned readings.

Yigal
----- Original Message ----- From: "JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>
To: <Brak AT neo.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalms and Sedarim


Even more confusing to me is how it would take anyone
almost 60 years (19 * 3) to read the book of psalms.

I mean, we are talking one slow reader here!






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