baal koreh
Pronunciations
baal koreh | (bahl KOH-reh) | listen |
Definitions
n. The individual who chants Torah from the scroll at a synagogue. Sometimes used to refer specifically to a person capable of learning and chanting an entire parsha, or to a professional/paid reader as opposed to an amateur.
Example Sentences
Our baal koreh will be reading the first five aliyot, but the bar mitzvah boy will handle the last two.
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
בעל קורא ba'al kore 'master reader'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
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- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
baal korei, baal-kore, bal koreh, ba'al koreh
Notes
Also baal keriah / ba'al k'riyah / bal kriya (Heb. בעל קריאה), which is "correct" according to Hebrew grammar.
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