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==Standing for Kriyat HaTorah== | ==Standing for Kriyat HaTorah== | ||
# It’s permissible to sit during Kriyat HaTorah and such is the minhag, yet some are strict to stand during Kriyat HaTorah (so as to hear it as if one is receiving it from Har Sinai when Bnei Yisrael was standing). During Barchu and Baruch HaMiverech LeOlam VeEd one should stand, however, many don’t stand and the minhag has what to rely on. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 146:18-20, Piskei Teshuvot 146:6 </ref> | # It’s permissible to sit during Kriyat HaTorah and such is the minhag, yet some are strict to stand during Kriyat HaTorah (so as to hear it as if one is receiving it from Har Sinai when Bnei Yisrael was standing). During Barchu and Baruch HaMiverech LeOlam VeEd one should stand, however, many don’t stand and the minhag has what to rely on. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 146:18-20, Piskei Teshuvot 146:6 </ref> | ||
# The Ashkenazic custom is to stand for Aseret Hadibrot, however, the Sephardic minhag is not to stand for Aseret HaDibdrot. If one is in a shul where the Rabbanim are sitting one should also sit and if one is in a shul that everyone is standing one should stand from the beginning for the parsha or at least the beginning of the aliyah. <ref>Sh"t Rambam 263, Sh"t Igrot Moshe OC 4:22, Yalkut Yosef 145-6:12 and 14, Shu"t Yechave Daat 1:29, Rav Chaim David Halevi Shu"t Aseh Lecha Rav 6:21, Shu"t Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:144, Rav Elyashiv in Ashrei Ish page 440 </ref> | # The Ashkenazic custom is to stand for Aseret Hadibrot, however, the Sephardic minhag is not to stand for Aseret HaDibdrot. If one is in a shul where the Rabbanim are sitting one should also sit and if one is in a shul that everyone is standing one should stand from the beginning for the parsha or at least the beginning of the aliyah. <ref>Sh"t Rambam 263, Sh"t Igrot Moshe OC 4:22, Yalkut Yosef 145-6:12 and 14, Shu"t Yechave Daat 1:29, Rav Chaim David Halevi in Shu"t Aseh Lecha Rav 6:21, Shu"t Teshuvot Vihanhagot 1:144, Rav Elyashiv in Ashrei Ish page 440 </ref> | ||
==Haftorah== | ==Haftorah== | ||
# One may not speak when the maftir is reading the Haftorah.<ref>Kitzur S"A 79:4</ref> | # One may not speak when the maftir is reading the Haftorah.<ref>Kitzur S"A 79:4</ref> | ||
# One does not answer [[amen]] after the words Neemarim BeEmet but only after VeTzedek.<ref>Kitzur S"A 79:3</ref> | # One does not answer [[amen]] after the words Neemarim BeEmet but only after VeTzedek.<ref>Kitzur S"A 79:3</ref> | ||
# Only the maftir should read the Haftorah and the rest of the congregation shouldn't read along. <ref>Kitzur S"A 79:5</ref> | |||
# If it is a double parsha, the Haftorah comes from the second parsha.<ref>Kitzur S"A 79:6</ref> | |||
==Holding onto Sefer Torah== | ==Holding onto Sefer Torah== | ||
# It is forbidden to hold onto to the parchment of the sefer torah without an intervening cloth, whether one is involved with rolling the sefer torah during kriyat hatorah or any other time.<ref>Megillah 32a says that a person who holds the parchment of a sefer torah without a covering of his hands he doesn't receive reward for the mitzvah he did while holding onto the sefer torah. Chazon Ovadyah (Shabbat vol 2, p. 266) writes that its forbidden to hold onto the parchment during kriyat hatorah or at any other time.</ref> | # It is forbidden to hold onto to the parchment of the sefer torah without an intervening cloth, whether one is involved with rolling the sefer torah during kriyat hatorah or any other time.<ref>Megillah 32a says that a person who holds the parchment of a sefer torah without a covering of his hands he doesn't receive reward for the mitzvah he did while holding onto the sefer torah. Chazon Ovadyah (Shabbat vol 2, p. 266) writes that its forbidden to hold onto the parchment during kriyat hatorah or at any other time.</ref> | ||
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