A Sephardic Person Should Hear Zachor Read With the Sephardic Tune

A Sephardic Person Should Hear Zachor Read With the Sephardic Tune Day: Monday Date: March 14, 2016 Parshat: Vayikra, Zachor Yalkut Yosef: O"H: 685 One should follow along in a Chumash but not read along while Parshat Zachor is being read, since one needs to hear it being read from the Torah. Even if one does not fully understand the words being read he has still fulfilled the mitzvah to remember Amalek since he understands the general idea. It is proper for a Sephardic person to hear Parshat Zachor being read by a Sephardic reader in the Sephardic tradition. Likewise, Ashkenazim should hear it read by an Ashkenazi reader. Sephardic students in Ashkenazi yeshivot should listen it being read in the Sephardic tradition from a Sephardic Torah scroll. On any other Shabbat it is fine for a Sephardic person to hear the Ashkenazi reading and vice versa. DSH is brought to you in memory of Rabbi Mordechai ben Daniel. Please visit us online at sephardichalacha.org