Sof Pasuk: The Torah Reading Podcast

Donny Rose

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Donny Rose hosts a weekly podcast discussing the do's and don'ts of how to read this week's parasha.

Feedback? E-mail me at torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com or join the conversation at on the Sof Pasuk WhatsApp.

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235 episodes

Tzav

Taking care with the dagesh chazak and watching out for what the ritually clean man is up to. Follow along with Vayikra 6:14, 7:30, Bemidbar 19:18. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.    

4m
Mar 28
Purim

Moshe Ginsberg is back on the podcast to talk about why we have a hataf kamatz on מרדכי that ins’t just a sheva na. Follow along in Ester 2:5, Bereshit 27:38, 3:23, Devarim 32:13, Ester 4:11, 6:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

16m
Mar 20
Vayikra

Plenty of constructs to watch out for this week.  Follow along in Vayikra 1:9, 3:16, 1:2, 2:1, 1:16, 4:12, 5:9.

5m
Mar 17
Pekudei

Nadav's insight on how the sof aliyot relate a theme and whether this week's parasha is Pekudei or Fekudei. Follow along in Shemot 8:6. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

5m
Mar 14
Vayakhel

Talking about vowels Follow along in Shemot 37:13, 36:34, 36:10, 38:18,  36:37, 35:5. Click here to support Crossroads and our 5K run in the Jerusalem marathon: https://causematch.com/crossroads_jlm/142416 

8m
Mar 07
Ki Tisa

Nadav joins me on the podcast to discuss an entirely regular parsing of "bread and water".  Follow along in Melachim Alef 18:4, Devarim 23:5 and Bereshit 14:8. Nadav is running the 5K in Jerusalem next week to raise money for Crossroads. Click here to support Nadav's run: https://causematch.com/crossroads_jlm/142416

5m
Feb 29
Tetzave

Tani joins the podcast to share his version of the telisha, discuss an unusal parsing that we can't solve, and the time he was accosted for saying שתי as a sheva nah. Follow along in Shemot 27:21, 28:6, 29:40, 18:8, 28:7, 28:26, Vayrika 23:17, Shemot 29:41, 25:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

11m
Feb 22
Teruma

Josh Lennon joins the podcast to talk about the difference in how to sing the telisha ketana versus the telisha gedola. Follow along in Shemot 27:1, 25:33, 37:19 and Melachim Alef 6:6, 5:30. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

9m
Feb 14
Mishpatim

Where pauses are a matter of law. Follow along in Shemot 22:2, 21:22-23, 21:36, 21:32.   Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Feb 08
Yitro

Plenty of keves yayin and a thouroughly embarrasing mistake. Follow along in Shemot 19:18, 21-22, 20:4, and Yeshayahu 6:13. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Feb 01
Beshalah

Parsing Shabbat properly, reading about who exactly was on the banks of the sea, and believing in Hashem and Moshe exactly like it should be. Follow along in Shemot 16:26-27, 14:30, 14:31, Bereshit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, and in this podcast from Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: https://youtu.be/GKgIrnV9aBw?si=RguxwWm2_ke8S5Yi Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Jan 25
Bo

Remedial segolate training, a keves yayin, and unusual parsing accross pesukim. Follow along in Yermiyahu 46:23, Shemot 12:10, 12:27-28, 12:21. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Jan 19
Va'eira

Mistaken trup and fun with frames. Follow along in Shemot 9:9, 9:19, 9:23 and 9:31-32. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Jan 11
Shemot

Lord, sir, and sirs, poor and afflicted, and a misplaced priest of Midyan. Follow along in Shemot 4:10, Bereishit 19:2, Shemot 3:7, 4:31, 3:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Jan 04
Vayhi

A tricky sort of wav consecutive and talking about what imperfects can, will, may, and should mean. Follow along in Bereishit 48:7, 48:20.  

5m
Dec 28, 2023
Vayigash

How to have your daughter help you not make mistakes, and how no one is safe from inspiring podcasts... even if you are just giving a devar Torah.

5m
Dec 21, 2023
Mikeitz

How to drive me crazy and the mother of all paranthetical statements. Follow along in Bereishit 43:18, 43:29, 44:17, 43:1, 44:1-6. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

5m
Dec 14, 2023
Vayeishev

Peretz and the pesik. Follow along in Bereishit 37:29, 39:9, Bemidbar 7:19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

5m
Dec 07, 2023
Vayishlah

Not being humbled by anyone talking incorrectly about the trup this week. Follow along with Bereishit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, Bereishit 14:19, 47:15. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

8m
Nov 30, 2023
Vayeitzei

An esquisite keves yayin and troubling one. Follow along in Bereishit 31:10, 30:10, 30:5, Shemot 7:11, Bereishit 30:7. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Nov 23, 2023
Toledot

A refersher on the chataf patah on letters where it doesn't belong. And while we are at, a refresher on this week's Mesorah Advisory. Follow along in Bereishit 27:26, 25:22, 27:29, 27:38, 28:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Nov 16, 2023
Chayei Sara

Oh, if only. Follow along in Bereishit 23:13, 17:18, Tehillim 81:14, Bereishit 30:34. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Nov 09, 2023
Vayeira

Parsing from afar, different kinds of healing (or not), and the swearing by your life. Follow along in Bereishit 22:4, 20:17, Melachim II 2:21-11, Shemot 21:19, Melachim II 4:30, Bereishit 42:15, Bemidbar 14:21. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

8m
Nov 02, 2023
Lech Lecha

Three timeless mistakes. Follow along in Bereshit 14:11, 17:17 and Yeshayahu 40:31. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

5m
Oct 26, 2023
Noah

Moshe Ginsberg and I ask each other questions that we cannot answer. Follow along in Bereishit 11:11, 7:2-3, Divrei Hayamim II 24:3, Devarim 11:14, Bereishit 2:4, 11:14. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Oct 18, 2023
Bereishit

The cluster of psiks this week, and the phenomenon of the conversion of the azla. Follow along in Bereishit 1:5, 1:10, 1:27, 2:21, 2:22, 4:15, 6:7. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

6m
Oct 11, 2023
Shemini Atzeret

On Rashi, the mesora, and grammar. Follow along in Devarim 33:23, 1:21, Daniel 9:19, Devarim 33:18-19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Oct 04, 2023
Sukkot and Kohelet

Tani Klein joins the podcast and we share our thoughts on Kohelet. You may think these are new ideas, but they aren't.  Follow along in Kohelet 9:2, 7:3, and 12:13-14 Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Sep 27, 2023
Yom Kippur

Three things in Yona to help you get ready for Yom Kippur mincha. Follow along in Yona 1:5, 1:11-12, and 1:14. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

7m
Sep 24, 2023
Ha'azinu

How your instincts on the shva could fail you.  Follow along in Devarim 32:7, 28:36, Shir Hashirm 8:2, and Devarim 32:32. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.  

8m
Sep 21, 2023