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</p><p class="indent">The one who performs gelila should not tie the Torah’s belt in an especially strong or permanent type of knot. Doing so would pose a halachic problem on Shabbat, as one is not permitted to untie a permanent type of knot on Shabbat.<ref>See Rivevot V’yovlot 3:2:19 at length.</ref> It goes without saying that when performing gelila on Shabbat one may not make a permanent knot. Instead, one should tie the belt with a bow on top of a single knot as is done when tying shoes, a lone bow, or simply to wrap the belt around the Torah and tuck in the ends.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan, OC 317:10; Shemirat Shabbat K’hilchata 15, n. 178; Tzitz Eliezer 7:29; Minchat Shabbat 80:155. </ref> Velcro Torah belts, or those whose ends clip into one another, are ideal and pose no halachic concerns.<ref>Rivevot V’yovlot 2:458.</ref> The one honored with reading the Haftorah should wait until gelila is completed before beginning the preliminary blessings.<ref>OC 147:7; Birkei Yosef 147; Mishna Berura 147:23; Kaf Hachaim, OC 147:40.</ref>
</p><p class="indent">The one who performs gelila should not tie the Torah’s belt in an especially strong or permanent type of knot. Doing so would pose a halachic problem on Shabbat, as one is not permitted to untie a permanent type of knot on Shabbat.<ref>See Rivevot V’yovlot 3:2:19 at length.</ref> It goes without saying that when performing gelila on Shabbat one may not make a permanent knot. Instead, one should tie the belt with a bow on top of a single knot as is done when tying shoes, a lone bow, or simply to wrap the belt around the Torah and tuck in the ends.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan, OC 317:10; Shemirat Shabbat K’hilchata 15, n. 178; Tzitz Eliezer 7:29; Minchat Shabbat 80:155. </ref> Velcro Torah belts, or those whose ends clip into one another, are ideal and pose no halachic concerns.<ref>Rivevot V’yovlot 2:458.</ref> The one honored with reading the Haftorah should wait until gelila is completed before beginning the preliminary blessings.<ref>OC 147:7; Birkei Yosef 147; Mishna Berura 147:23; Kaf Hachaim, OC 147:40.</ref>


===Torah Types & Hagba===
===Literary Source===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
Nehemiah 8:5 is the primary source for Hagba: וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח עֶזְרָ֤א הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י כָל־הָעָ֔ם כִּֽי־מֵעַ֥ל כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הָיָ֑ה וּכְפִתְח֖וֹ עָֽמְד֥וּ כָל־הָעָֽם׃
|-
! colspan="5" |Torah Types & Hagba
|-
!Torah Types
!Style
!When
!Process
|-
|Ashkenazi / Sephardi Torah Scroll (Atzei Chayim)
|Ashkenazi
|After the Torah reading but before Haftorah
|The entire scroll is lifted during hagba.
|-
|Yemeni Torah (Cylindrical Carrier)
| Sephardi
|Before the Torah reading
|Only the parchment is lifted while the cylindrical carrier is left on the reading table of the bimah. The parchment is not touched with the actual hands but rather with a scarf or tallit between the physcial hands and the Torah.
|-
| Either
|Hybrid Ashkenazi-Sephardi
|Before & after
|Some congregations now mix elements of the two traditions.
|-
|}
 
==History & Background==
The ritual of Hagba is thought to have either developed in the Babylonian period or during the time of Judges. The early practice of Hagba was often practiced in the marketplace of towns and villages where the showing of the Sefer Torah was an important display of authenticity after the reading of the Sefer Torah.
 
===Literary Source/s===
Nehemiah 8.5 is the primary source for Hagba reference:
 
וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח עֶזְרָ֤א הַסֵּ֙פֶר֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י כָל־הָעָ֔ם כִּֽי־מֵעַ֥ל כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הָיָ֑ה וּכְפִתְח֖וֹ עָֽמְד֥וּ כָל־הָעָֽם׃
 
Ezra opened the scroll in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; as he opened it, all the people stood up.
Ezra opened the scroll in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; as he opened it, all the people stood up.
===Hagba & Gelilah Terminology===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan="5" |Hagba & Gelilah Terminology
|-
!Action / Process
!Actor (male)
!Actor (female)
!Remarks
|-
|Hagbaha
|Magbiah
|Magbihah
|In the early Sephardi tradition, the process in known as "Levantar" in Ladino, and the actors are known as "Levantadores."
|-
|Gelilah
|Gollel
|Golellet
|In some older traditions, the rolling and dressing processes were once separated instead of the combined duties known today as Gelilah.
|-
|}


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