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Yes. The music is the cantillation-notes (trope), according to which the Torah is chanted in the synagogue. These notes provide punctuation, mood, and further meaning. Each word has (besides the vowel-marks) a little curved mark over it or under it; these are the cantillation (singing) notes.

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Yes. The music is the cantillation-notes (trope), according to which the Torah is chanted in the synagogue. These notes provide punctuation, mood, and further meaning. Each word has (besides the vowel-marks) a little curved mark over it or under it; these are the cantillation (singing) notes.

See if the attached Related Link is helpful for further detail.

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You need a program such as Davka writer. without software, you can do it manually by opening up the character map on your computer, but this is VERY tedious. you would just click on each character, copy it, and then paste it.

You can also find the Entire Tanakh online with cantillation marks. See http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c0.htm

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The traditional chant (trope; cantillation) is, among other things, a system of punctuation, as well as a mnemonic aid. It also hints at the emotions within the verse. The chant is an ancient custom which is codified in Jewish law.

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The entire Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), not just Proverbs, was taught to children from the age of five and up. It was commonplace for ten-year-olds to know the entire Tanakh by heart - with commentary and cantillation.

In particular, Proverbs has very many layers of meaning which imparted life-wisdom and Torah-attitudes.

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Biblical Hebrew.

Any translation, whether done by Jews or Gentiles, is, at best, no more than an indication of what the Tanakh is saying. The translations leave out all or most of the Hebrew Bible's accompanying oral tradition, its traditional musical chant (cantillation, which provides punctuation and emotion), and the fact that many verses teach us a number of things.

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