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Tikkun (book)
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “necessary book one would use when learning to chant a certain portion of the torah”. Today it says “book used by jews to prepare for reading or writing a torah scroll”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
A tikkun is a necessary book one would use when learning to chant a certain portion of the Torah . It contains the entire Torah in Hebrew . The right side of each page is written in Hebrew with the cantillation marks. The other side of each page is written in Hebrew without the markings, which is the way one would see it when reading from the Torah . v t e1
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “necessary book one would use when learning to chant a certain portion of the torah”. Today it says “book used by jews to prepare for reading or writing a torah scroll”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
necessary book one would use when learning to chant a certain portion of the torah
Now
book used by jews to prepare for reading or writing a torah scroll
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