About - Tefillah Trainer - Shabbat & Weekday Prayers

TEFILLAH TRAINER™ - A revolutionary new tool to learn Hebrew prayer: designed for the average congregant, b'nai mitzvah student, and adult learner.
The traditionally trained Cantors and Rabbis involved in the production of TefillahTrainer software have contributed to the education of literally thousands of regular students, people who are not training to be cantors. These teachers know that the melodies they teach need to be traditional, correct, and free of difficult or elaborate cantorial embellishments. Every prayer needs to be set so that the entire melody is within the vocal range of the student, and chanted at a speed with which the student can learn. They also know that Hebrew prayers are not just the first and last verses that are chanted out loud by the Ba'al Tefillah (the prayer leader).

TefillahTrainer software uniquely addresses each of these issues. Using multimedia technology, complete prayers are presented in the proper context of complete prayer services, making it easy to navigate to the exact word in the exact prayer that you want to learn. No more searching through CDs, MP3 files or cassettes. In TefillahTrainer software, simply click on the prayer, click on the word, and click Play. In TefillahTrainer, most prayers are chanted using proper traditional nusach, the melody patterns traditionally used for sets of prayers chanted on weekdays and Shabbat. Other prayers are chanted with popular congregational melodies. We don't expect you to be a cantorial student, so the melodies are clear and not overly complex.

In a traditional service, the reader chants the final words of a prayer out loud, and for some prayers, also chants the first words of a prayer out loud. For the beginner just learning the prayers, TefillahTrainer software also chants the middle words of each prayer using simple melodies related to the nusach appropriate for each prayer in its location in a service.

The advanced student who wants to learn to lead services, to be a Ba'al Tefillah, can select "Hear Reader's parts" and will be shown the entire prayer with only the leader's parts chanted.

TefillahTrainer software offers full control of voice, pitch, speed and several Ashkenazi and Sephardi pronunciations to fill the student's requirements and practices of their synagogue. Students can switch between chanting and speaking the prayers. A soft instrumental accompaniment can be switched on or off to aid in learning.

Features - Tefillah Trainer - Shabbat & Weekday Prayers

Morning Prayer 
Hashkama, Upon getting up in morning
Tzitzit & Tefilin, Fringes & Phylacteries
Birkot Hashachar, Morning blessings
Korbanot, Temple Service & Sacrifices
Kadish Drabanan, Rabbi' s Kadish
Psukei Dezimra, Verses of morning hymns
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Shema, Hear Israel
Shmoneh Esrei, Eighteen Blessings
Tachnun, Supplications
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Hotzaat Torah, Bringing out the Torah
Uva Letzion, And will come to Zion
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Hachnasat Torah, Returning of the Torah
Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
Ein KeEloheinu, There is no one like our God
Kadish Drabanan , Rabbi' s Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
Ldavid, Psalm 27
 
Afternoon Prayer
Ashrei, Opening Afternoon Psalm
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Shmoneh Esrei, Eighteen Blessings
Tachnun, Supplications
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
 
Evening Prayer 
Shir Hamaalot, Psalm of Ascents
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Vehu Rachum, And He the compassionate One
Asher Bidvaro, Who with His word
Ahavat Olam, Eternal love
Shema, Hear Israel
V'emuna, And faithful
Hashkiveinu, Lay us down
Baruch Hashem, Blessed is God
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Shmoneh Esrei, , Eighteen Blessings
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
Sefirat Haomer, Counting of the omer

Shabbat Eve 
Hodu, Thank God
Yedid Nefesh, Beloved of the soul
Kabalat Shabat, Welcoming the Sabbath
Ana Bekoach, Please with the power
Lecha Dodi, Come my beloved
Mizmor Shir, Psalm 92
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
Kegavna, As they
Maariv, Evening prayer
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Amidah, Standing prayer
Mein Sheva, Seven part blessing
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Mizmor Ledavid, Psalm 23
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish

Kiddush

Shabbat Morning 
Lamnatzeiach Mizmor, Hymns
Shir Lemaalot, Song of ascents
Yehi Kevod, Shall be the glory
Baruch Hashem, Blessed is God
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Shema, Hear Israel
Amidah, Standing Prayer
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Shir Shel Yom, Daily Hymn
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
 
Torah Reading Shabbat Morning 
Hotzaat Sefer Torah, Bringing out the Torah
Birchot Hatorah, Blessings of the Torah
Yekum Purkan, May salvation arise
Birchot Hachodesh, Blessing the new moon
Hachnasat Sefer Torah, Returning the Torah
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
 
Musaf Shabbat 
Musaf, Musaf
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Ein KeEloheinu, There is no one like our God
Kadish Drabanan , Rabbi' s Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish
Anim Zemirot, I will sing sweet chants
 
Shabbat Morning Meal - Zmerot 
Kidush
 
Shabbat Afternoon 
Ashrei, Praiseworthy is
Chatzi Kadish, Half Kadish
Mincha, Afternoon prayer
Tzidkatcha, Your righteousness
Kadish Shalem, Full Kadish
Aleinu, Closing Prayer "For us"
Kadish Yatom, Mourner' s Kadish 
 
End of Shabat 
Havdalah, End of Shabbat Prayer

Beginning of Month 
Hallel, Hallel
Musaf, Musaf 
 
Holiday Hanukah 
Brachot, Blessings
 
Holiday Purim 
Brachot, Blessings

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