page_title: Tikkun (book)
section_title: Tikkun kor'im
hierarchical_section_title: Tikkun (book) / Tikkun kor'im
caption_attribution_description: English: A Tikkun kor'im. עברית: תיקון קוראים.
context_page_description: A tikkun or tiqqun is a book used by Jews to prepare for reading or writing a Torah scroll. There are two types of tikkun, a tikkun kor'im and a tikkun soferim.
context_section_description: A tikkun kor'im or tiqqun qor'im (readers' tikkun) is a study guide used when preparing to chant [lein] the Torah reading from the Torah in a synagogue.  Each tikkun contains two renditions of the masoretic text in Hebrew. The right side of each page is written with the cantillation marks and vowel points, while the left is written in unpointed Hebrew, as it appears in the actual scroll. People who chant from the Torah must learn the tune and the pronunciation of the words beforehand, as the scroll itself has neither points nor cantillation marks, and because there are places where the word to be read (the Qere) differs from that written (the Kethib) in the scroll.
caption: A tikkun kor'im.
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