Ever since I slept through Parshas Zachor (the handful of verses discussing Amalek's attack on the Jews in the desert which we read on the Shabbos before Purim) almost a decade ago, I've had a teensy bit of extra kick-in-the-pants to make sure I get to shul on future Shabbtot Zachor. (The year I missed it, I spent the next three months obsessively remembering that I must go to shul and hear those verses read when Parshas Ki Teitzei finally rolled around. Thankfully, I did get to shul and hear it when summer finally rolled around, but it was rather stressful: if I had missed that one, I would have been really up a creek.)
Yeah, so anyway, I made it to shul for Torah-reading this week (yay!) and BSM reminded me why I only take him to shul for Kabbalas Shabbos if I take him at all: if it ain't a sing-a-long, he can't sit quietly. Not shocking, I know, but I had kind of hoped he could sit quietly and listen to leining for 10 minutes until they hit the grand finale.
My point, however, from which I continually digress, is that this was the first leining of Zachor I've heard where they didn't read the "Erase the remembrance of Amalek" verse twice, once vowelizing "remembrance" as "zācher" and once as "zĕcher." However, they did read the whole paragraph four times: once with the Ashkenazi trop, the second time with Yemenite trop, thirdly in the general Eidut HaMizrach style, and I still don't know what flavor the fourth reading was. (Husbinator thinks there was just a fourth guy who also wanted a turn to read.)
So that's what I just spent 277 words saying: my shul read Parshas Zachor using 3-4 different traditional cantillation styles. I found that interesting.
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