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A tikkun for reading the Torah is a book which has the text with all the twiddles on one side, and the text as it appears in the Torah, sans twiddles, on the other side.
Lion of Zion has a post today* about a fifteenth-century tikkun in manuscript. Needless to say, this is made of awesome, and you should all go and look at it because well gosh.
This puts me in mind of Asher Scharfstein, co-founder of Ktav Publishing.
His son Sol writes** "In 1947 my father had a brainstorm and assembled the first-of-its-kind Torah-reading text, entitled Tikkun Torah. This was an immediate success. This Tikkun, 60 years later, has gone through innumerable editions and has helped train tens of thousands of Torah readers."
Asked if he knew where his father got the idea, Sol said "I don't know...he just had the idea and he did it." Had he seen such a thing in manuscript? Had it occurred to him spontaneously? We don't know. In any case, the Scharfstein narrative is that this was the first time anyone had bothered to do it in print. Isn't that interesting?
--Obviously this post needs pictures of both the 15th-century manuscript and the first edition of Tikkun Torah, and possibly of the Simanim as well, being an example of what happens when you add computer typesetting to the mix. One of these days I'll hunt them up, you wait and see. Until then, this'll have to suffice. It's still interesting.--
* Hat tip to Manuscript Boy.
** You can read this in the front of Sol Scharfstein's The Five Books of Moses, an Easy-To-Read Torah Translation, published (of course) by Ktav.
Lion of Zion has a post today* about a fifteenth-century tikkun in manuscript. Needless to say, this is made of awesome, and you should all go and look at it because well gosh.
This puts me in mind of Asher Scharfstein, co-founder of Ktav Publishing.
His son Sol writes** "In 1947 my father had a brainstorm and assembled the first-of-its-kind Torah-reading text, entitled Tikkun Torah. This was an immediate success. This Tikkun, 60 years later, has gone through innumerable editions and has helped train tens of thousands of Torah readers."
Asked if he knew where his father got the idea, Sol said "I don't know...he just had the idea and he did it." Had he seen such a thing in manuscript? Had it occurred to him spontaneously? We don't know. In any case, the Scharfstein narrative is that this was the first time anyone had bothered to do it in print. Isn't that interesting?
--Obviously this post needs pictures of both the 15th-century manuscript and the first edition of Tikkun Torah, and possibly of the Simanim as well, being an example of what happens when you add computer typesetting to the mix. One of these days I'll hunt them up, you wait and see. Until then, this'll have to suffice. It's still interesting.--
* Hat tip to Manuscript Boy.
** You can read this in the front of Sol Scharfstein's The Five Books of Moses, an Easy-To-Read Torah Translation, published (of course) by Ktav.