📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=22033

Date: 2018-10-04

Last Updated: 2025-04-16

Categories: Parashat Bereshit, Sefer Bereshit (Genesis)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, transtropilation

Excerpt: A Torah reading of Parashat Bereshit in English translation, transtropilated. . . .

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This is an English translation of the Torah reading for Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), transtropilated. (Transtropilation is the term coined by Len Fellman to describe the process of translating from cantillated Hebrew, as closely as possible, “word for word and trōp for trōp”, with the main purpose being to aid a person with minimal Hebrew training in following the Hebrew leyning word for word.) This translation is based on Everett Fox’s Five Books of Moses (Schocken 1997) with modifications based on the following translations: Aryeh Kaplan’s ‘The Living Torah’, the Stone Edition Tanakh, the Artscroll Machzor, and the Jerusalem Bible.

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  Name: the Mesorah (TaNaKh)
  Bio: The Mesorah (Heb: מָסוֹרָה) a/k/a, the Masoretic text is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the TaNaKh for Karaite and Rabbinic Judaism. It was primarily copied, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Masoretes between the 7th and 10th centuries CE. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with its vocalization and accentuation known as the Masorah.
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  Name: Len Fellman (translation)
  Bio: Len Fellman is a mathematician, educator, and innovator of "transtropilation," the process of translating from cantillized Hebrew, as closely as possible, “word for word and trōp for trōp”, with the main purpose being to aid a person with minimal Hebrew training in following the Hebrew leyning of the Torah and Haftarah readings word for word.
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Caption: Detail of transtropilated translation of a portion of Parashat Bereshit.