05-02-2008, 09:03 PM
yaaqub Wrote:Paul Younan Wrote:The Aramaic Targums (Onkelos, Jonathan, etc.) are more like the written versions of the oral readings the Aramaic translator (the "Meturgeman") would recite in the synagogue after the readings in Hebrew.
I attended Yemenite Jewish services in Israel before and they still do this. Very beautiful.
Just came across this clip on YouTube, of a Yemenite chanting the first 4 verses of Bereshit in Hebrew, Aramaic & Arabic:
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Torah in Aramaic clip (I'm sure this guy is reading Targum Onqelos):
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