Illustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio

Pazeir is a special note that appears only a handful of times in each parashah. There are a few parashiyot where it doesn’t appear at all! The note looks like a backwards number four. It comes from the word to spread out, and that’s how it sounds. It goes up very high and then comes back down, covering lots of notes along the way. There are three places in the Torah where two pazeir notes are back-to-back, and one of these instances is in our parashah:

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