Talk:Shalshelet

The musical cantillation note Shalshelet is a musical note of indecision and ambivalence. It usually is on a word at the beginning of a passuk (sentence) and displays the person's difficulty in making a decision. For example, Lot's indecision on leaving Sodom, Eliezar's ambivalence in picking a wife for Isaac, and Joseph's ambivalence when confronted by Potiphar's wife. These are all found in the Book of Genesis.

Shalsheles in Parshas Tzav
The explanation given for the shalsheles in Parshas Tzav (vayishchat) seems to be original research.MikeR613 (talk) 02:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Correction: the Shalshelet occurs 46 times (!) in the Tanakh
The article states "The shalshelet note occurs a total of 7 times in Tanakh", which is not true. The Leningrad Codex Hebrew base text gives the following numbers: 4x Torah (check!), 2x Nevi'im (check!), 40x Ketuvim (way off). Probably the numbers of the אמ“ת books are missing here (Job, Proverbs, Psalms), which have additional 39 instances. Here are a few examples: Psalms 3:3, 7:6, 10:2, 12:8, 13:2, 13:2+3, 20:8 etc. See also Job 5:19, 15:23, 16:9, 32:6, 37:12, 40:23 and Proverbs 1:9, 6:10, 6:27, 24:33. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wuschelkopf (talk • contribs) 11:47, 21 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I think this is correct. The Weisberg article says that shalshelet occurs only seven times, but the article explicitly has as its focus the 21 books of Tanakh that are not the Sifrei Emet, and this can be seen from the title of the Weisberg article itself.  I've put a citation mark in the article to back up the claim that there are exactly 39 shalsheletot in these three books, but I did confirm that it exists in several of the verses cited in the comment that I am replying to. (Examples include:, , ).    Deville (Talk) 18:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC)