Sefaria Lyrics JSON Builder

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The standard Shabbat Parashot are established by Pocket Torah. The Parasha names are those used by Pocket Torah, as are the verses assigned to each aliyah and maftir.

Playback uses the public GitHub repository and its playback functions.

High Holiday Torah portions are not available for Pocket Torah playback using High Holiday trope. To provide such playback, recorded Torah portions are accessed from public recordings provided by Temple Sinai of Sharon, MA, Congregation Beth Shalom of Arlington, TX, and Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (NYC). Source attribution and links are provided in License Information at the top of the main web page.

Each synagogue uses its own labels to identify Torah portions for the various holiday services, consistent with the labels and access links published on its website. Each synagogue has also divided its readings into aliyot and assigned verses to those aliyot.

This application preserves each synagogue's published reading names, aliyah designations, and verse assignments when identifying and accessing those recordings. As a result, the names and divisions used by one synagogue may not correspond directly to an apparently equivalent portion from another synagogue. In addition, these divisions may differ from those expected under traditional aliyah assignment conventions. These differences reflect the organization of the source material and are intentionally preserved by this application.

Playback also follows each source's recording format: Temple Sinai opens complete aliyah recordings; Congregation Beth Shalom uses defined verse timing segments within longer recordings; and Stephen Wise Free Synagogue plays SoundCloud links for the verses in the selected aliyah sequentially.

Note that the references to Rosh Hashanah 1 and Rosh Hashanah 2 on the Temple Sinai site do not necessarily indicate the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah. They refer to the two readings published in the URJ Mishkan T'filah.