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# One should be careful not to give a Sefer Torah to a young child to dance with because he may drop it. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | # One should be careful not to give a Sefer Torah to a young child to dance with because he may drop it. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | ||
# Some say that having a person ride on someone else's shoulders is a bad minhag. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | # Some say that having a person ride on someone else's shoulders is a bad minhag. <Ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 463</ref> | ||
# It is permitted for the elderly and the sick to sit between Hakafot but they should stand during the Hakafot and when the Sifrei Torah are being returned to the Heichal. Healthy people should stand during the entire duration of Hakafot until the Sifrei Torah are returned to the Heichal. <ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 465. </ref> | # It is permitted for the elderly and the sick to sit between Hakafot but they should stand during the Hakafot and when the Sifrei Torah are being returned to the Heichal. Healthy people should stand during the entire duration of Hakafot until the Sifrei Torah are returned to the Heichal. <ref>Chazon Ovadya p. 465, Yechave Daat 6:42<br /> | ||
* Orchot Rabbeinu pg. 309 says that the Chazon Ish would only sit if he was holding a sefer torah. | |||
* Aruch Laner YD 282:5 is lenient between hakafot, and Chazon Ovadia only allows relying on this leniency for a sick or old person. | |||
* Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo Moadim Perek 12:Note 13 and Shalmei Moed pg. 174) brings two potential reasons to be lenient: | |||
# Perhaps one only has to stand for a torah in transit when it is being transported to a definitive place. However, if it is just being circled endlessly and aimlessly for dancing then it is not “in transit.” This is also brought in Bitzel Hachochma 5:139 and Teshuvot Vihanhagot 2:319 | |||
# Perhaps the circle of men dancing around the sifrei torah creates a mechitza which separates you from the torah and would allow you to sit. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata Perek 24: note 125 quotes this as well. </ref> | |||
# On Simchat Torah, it is permitted to move a Torah for the purpose of dancing or reading it somewhere else, even though this is not generally permitted.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 94:1), Chazon Ovadya p. 460, Yechave Daat 1:72</ref> | # On Simchat Torah, it is permitted to move a Torah for the purpose of dancing or reading it somewhere else, even though this is not generally permitted.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Sukkot]] 94:1), Chazon Ovadya p. 460, Yechave Daat 1:72</ref> | ||
# Regarding the laws of davening and reciting brachot after drinking wine and other intoxicating beverages see [[Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages]]. | # Regarding the laws of davening and reciting brachot after drinking wine and other intoxicating beverages see [[Avoiding Davening After Drinking Intoxicating Beverages]]. | ||
