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Wed, Feb 06 2019, 3:30 pm
it's his right of passage ... a good compromise would be to lein only a small amount ... first aliyah till sheini, last aliyah or only haftorah
practice practice practice ...
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Wed, Feb 06 2019, 3:31 pm
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Leining is chanting, not singing. If he is motivated to learn how and step up to this level of responsibility and participation for his bar mitzvah, he certainly should do so.
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Wed, Feb 06 2019, 3:52 pm
wow please don't give him the taam that Judaism = his bar mitsva = he's too bad at it
and no he doesn't need singing lessons
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Wed, Feb 13 2019, 10:48 am
This isn't about the melody. It's not about what people will think, or if they will enjoy hearing him.
This is about his commitment to the Torah and Hashem, and nothing is more beautiful than that.
IMHO, it's nature's cruel joke that a boy's voice changes right at around the age of 13, but what can you do? Maybe it's Hashem's way of saying that the tune is not the most important thing.
I would happily sit through a service full of "screeching and skwalking" if there was a love of Yiddishkeit and mitzvot there.
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PinkFridge
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Wed, Feb 13 2019, 10:58 am
A lot of baalei kriah don't have the best voices. And I'm totally with FF. And one point, like she said, a lot of bar mitzvah boys croak their way through the parsha, boys whose voices were gorgeous before and become gorgeous after.
Mazel tov!
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Wed, Feb 13 2019, 11:36 am
A good baal korei must be accurate and audible and have good diction. An operatic voice is a nice add-on but not a requirement. This is about disseminating Torah and acknowledging a boy's acceptance of his role and responsibilities as a Jewish adult. You want good voices, go to a concert.
Voice lessons, if you can afford them and your ds is interested,are worthwhile. They won't turn him into a Shwekey, but he will learn pacing, breath control, diction, and most of all confidence. Don't ever, ever, ever let him know your opinion of his voice.
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ShishKabob
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Wed, Feb 13 2019, 11:41 am
Of course you should let him lein, It's not about you, it's about him. And you must've done the right thing because he feels confident of himself to lein despite of the voice.
There are vitamins to enhance the voice that chazzanim use as well as voice therapists.
My dh's siblings told him that he sings off tune and guess what? he has a beautiful voice but never wanted to sing zmiros because of that complex. I happen to love to hear him sing whether it's on tune or not, but it took tons of prompting from me to get him to do it cuz all he hears in his head is "you sing off tune" "yousing off tune".
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Unless he is truly tone deaf and can't hear the difference between an etnachta and a sof-pasuk, voice isn't so important--I know regular ba'alei kriah who are not wonderful singers. What matters is being able to understand the grammar and phrasing, to be clear and project. A good tutor will help, and he will learn a lot, which is as much the point as the performance.
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