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I work for a day school (85% Ashkenazi population)and we're looking to gift a copy of the Tikkun Korim Simanim to our oldest grade of students. The Sephardi edition costs $5 less - a significant savings for fifty copies. Thank you in advance for detailing the practical differences of Sephardi tikkun and for opining as to the appropriateness of gifting it to a primarily Ashkenazi population.

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Simanim is definitely a great choice (probably the best)

  • The "Ksav" (font) used in a sefardi sefer torah looks very different then in and Ashkenazei one

  • The Haftaroth read for Shabbatoth and Yom Tov can vary between sefardi and ashkenazi cutom.

  • Simanim's and other more modern Tikkun Korim page set up - Tzurat Hadaf (each page is different) looks very similar to what one can expect is Sifrei Torah written over the last 2 decades. This feature is immensely useful when preparing for torah reading. This might be different from a sefardi sefer torah.

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    Does the column layout really differ for Sefardim?
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Jun 19 at 17:35
  • @DoubleAA i am pretty sure it is, but wil double check later. I am updating the answer to reflect.
    – Yoreinu
    Commented Jun 19 at 18:15
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If it's at all possible I would order a small amount of Sepharadi ones for any Sepharadi students. I was recently discussing a situation with a family at an Ashkenazi synagogue. The husband is Ashkenazi but the wife is Turkish and she wanted her daughter to learn Sepharadi te'amim. Sepharadim often teach using something called the Zarqa Table, this table is usually missing in Ashkenazi tikkunim as they are unable to use this teaching methodology in the same way. So if you have any Sepharadi students I would recommend getting them the Sepharadi tikkun

Note: Some Ashkenazim do learn from a Zarqa table but in my experience it's a minority. This is because Ashkenazim have different melodies for the conjunctive te'amim (munah and merkha) which means they often learn the te'amim as sets of phrases, rather than one table that contains all the melodies would need like Sepharadim.

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  • The link you give to a Zarka table opens with an Ashkenazi one. I'm all for getting people the most useful versions of books, but this answer seems highly suspect
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Jun 20 at 19:11
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    I don't understand this answer. The OP wants to buy Sepharadi editions for everyone, and you haven't answered about the appropriateness of buying a Sepharadi edition for non-Sepharadim.
    – magicker72
    Commented Jun 20 at 19:50
  • @DoubleAA Many Ashkenazi tikkunim do not include any kind of zarqa table. I posted the website that provides both Ashkenazi and Sepharadi to show this concept overall
    – Aaron
    Commented Jun 20 at 20:47
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    @Aaron This sounds like an interesting comment on the OP, rather than an answer.
    – magicker72
    Commented Jun 20 at 21:22
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    I'm happy to report that (unsurprisingly) Simanim Tikkun has a Zarka table
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Jun 21 at 0:19

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