On Monday my diary told me I had to start learning my next set of leyning, if I wanted to get it learned at one verse a day by the time I needed it. But I put it aside to come back to later in the evening, as I was going out. And then I went out. And came back. And forgot.
On Tuesday, I clean forgot, but remembered in the middle of the night, and determined to put my
tikkun out to remind me. Or something like that. At any rate, it almost goes without saying that I forgot. So now it's Thursday and I've got three extra verses to catch up on, as well as the one I should be learning that day. So I get stuck in, determined to do at least two verses today.
And, halfway into the second verse, there's a rare note, a מֵרְכָא כְפוּלָה—one of the ones which only occurs a handful of times in the entire Torah—and which I've never learned before.
Fortunately, my Limmud notes came to the rescue, where Victor Tunkel provided a complete זַרְקָא table—a table of the cantillation of the Torah. (There's also a table in the back of the Hertz chumash; Victor Tunkel provided his because he said there were two many bad זַרְקָא tables out there. The two differed only in the two G semiquavers Tunkel's table had leading in, and in an obvious typographical error in his table...) Apparently it sounds like
this. (Or at least it does in the Western Ashkenazi trop used in the UK; I'm suspect googling would turn up how it sounds in the Eastern Ashkenazi trop used in the US...)
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