Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
Yerah ben Yomo and Karnei Farah are partners in crime—they always come as a pair. And when we say “always,” we mean once!
That’s right, they only appear once in the entire Torah. (There are 15 others in the rest of the Tanakh, including one in the megillah that we read on Purim.) These notes really look like their names. Yerah ben yomo means “day-old moon,” and it looks just like a crescent moon propped up on a stick. Karnei farah means “horns of a cow.” Here they are in our parashah:
אַלְפַּ֪יִם בָּֽאַמָּ֟ה
2,000 cubits
These notes are so rare, a lot of people have forgotten how to sing them, and they just make them up! But search around for experienced Torah readers and ask them how they read these special notes—you might just uncover an old tradition that was passed on for generations.
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