Keriat ha-Torah and Birkhot ha-Torah

Keriat ha-Torah (Reading of the Torah); Birkhot ha-Torah (Blessings of the Torah). Performed by Ezra ben hHakham David from Baghdad on July 21, 1913. Cylinder # 659.         1:58

Numbers 25:10-15; with blessings preceding and following the reading. After the second blessing the informant repeats the first two verses of the reading in an Aramaic translation (attributed to Onkelos) to a very simple cantillation system.