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==Listening to the Kriyat HaTorah==
==Listening to the Kriyat HaTorah==
# Even if the baal koreh pronounces the words in another dialect than one usually uses, such as an Ashekanzi listening to a Sephardi baal koreh, one fulfills one's obligation. The only times for which one should be strict to hear the Kriyat Hatorah from someone who uses the same pronunciation as oneself is Parshat Zachor and Parshat Parah. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 282:15</ref>
# Even if the baal koreh pronounces the words in another dialect than one usually uses, such as an Ashekanzi listening to a Sephardi baal koreh, one fulfills one's obligation. The only times for which one should be strict to hear the Kriyat Hatorah from someone who uses the same pronunciation as oneself is Parshat Zachor and Parshat Parah. <ref>Yalkut Yosef 282:15</ref>
==Who Can get an Aliya==
===Child===
# Some poskim permit sending up a child who is old enough to understand who he is blessing for an aliya and can count in the seven.<ref> Yechave Daat 4:23</ref> Other poskim write that you should not send up a child except for Maftir<Ref>Mishna Brura 282:12, Mikor Chaim 3: pg. 110, [http://tvunah.org/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%9F-%D7%9C%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94/ Rav Osher Weiss]</ref>
===Blind===
# There is much discussion about sending up a blind a person to the torah for an aliya<ref> see [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/853127/rabbi-aryeh-lebowitz/ten-minute-halacha-may-a-blind-person-get-an-aliya-/ May a Blind Person Get an Aliya] by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz</ref>. The minhag is most sephardic communities is to allow it.<ref> see Tzitz Eliezer 11:10</ref>
==Order of the Aliyot==
==Order of the Aliyot==
# There's is a mitzvah to give the Cohen the first Aliyah and the honor of doing [[Zimmun]].<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 144:8</ref> Similarly, it is forbidden to use a Cohen for a personal task, however, if the Cohen foregoes on his honor, it is permitted.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 144:9</ref>
# There's is a mitzvah to give the Cohen the first Aliyah and the honor of doing [[Zimmun]].<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 144:8</ref> Similarly, it is forbidden to use a Cohen for a personal task, however, if the Cohen foregoes on his honor, it is permitted.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 144:9</ref>