Illustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio

Telisha ketanah is a somewhat fancy note that only appears a few times in each parashah. It looks kind of like a lollipop pointing to the left, and it is always placed at the end of a word, no matter where the accent is. Telisha ketanah is one of those notes that doesn’t end a musical phrase but leads into what’s next—in this case, it is always followed by a kadma.

Here is an example from the first aliyah of our parashah:

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