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# One should not make [[Kiddush]] on the night of Simchat Torah before certain nightfall (i.e. [[Tzet HaCochavim]]). <Ref>Kaf HaChaim 668:10 quoting Ben Ish Chai (Vezot HaBrachot #13), Nitei Gavriel 92:2 </ref>
# One should not make [[Kiddush]] on the night of Simchat Torah before certain nightfall (i.e. [[Tzet HaCochavim]]). <Ref>Kaf HaChaim 668:10 quoting Ben Ish Chai (Vezot HaBrachot #13), Nitei Gavriel 92:2 </ref>


==Everyone getting an Aliyah==
==Everyone Getting an Aliyah==
# The minhag is that everyone receives an aliyah on Simchat Torah in order to be involved in the happiness of finishing the Torah. Also, it increases our honor for the Torah. <ref>Rama 669:1, Mishna Brurah 669:12. Aseh Lecha Rav 3:21 adds that this minhag is partially based on the minhag to give each person an aliyah once a month and at least in Tishrei we should ensure that this take place.</ref>
# The minhag is that everyone receives an aliyah on Simchat Torah in order to be involved in the happiness of finishing the Torah. Also, it increases our honor for the Torah. <ref>Rama 669:1, Mishna Brurah 669:12. Aseh Lecha Rav 3:21 adds that this minhag is partially based on the minhag to give each person an aliyah once a month and at least in Tishrei we should ensure that this take place.</ref>
## The Sephardic custom is to repeat the aliyah that begins "ולאשר אמר" until everyone got an aliyah besides those who are designated to get an aliyah afterwards.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 469)</ref>
## The Sephardic custom is to repeat the aliyah that begins "ולאשר אמר" until everyone got an aliyah besides those who are designated to get an aliyah afterwards.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 469)</ref>
# It is permitted for the congregation to break up for kriyat hatorah into multiple groups where a minyan or more takes a sefer torah to another room and reads it there so that the distribution of the aliyot is quicker.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (p. 472) permits and explains that it isn't an issue of degrading the sefer torah either because the minyan accompanies the sefer torah and it is within the same building. He cites Rav Shlomo Zalman (Shalmei Moed p. 176) that it is permitted specifically on simchat torah in order to increase our excitement over the Torah by having eveyrone get an aliyah.</ref>
# It is permitted for the congregation to break up for kriyat hatorah into multiple groups where a minyan or more takes a sefer torah to another room and reads it there so that the distribution of the aliyot is quicker.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 472) permits and explains that it isn't an issue of degrading the sefer torah either because the minyan accompanies the sefer torah and it is within the same building. This is also recorded in Chazon Ovadia Aveilut v. 3 p. 22 with regards to bringing a sefer torah to a [[Mourner's Home]]. He cites Rav Shlomo Zalman (Shalmei Moed p. 176) that it is permitted specifically on simchat torah in order to increase our excitement over the Torah by having everyone get an aliyah. See Halichot Shlomo p. 156.
* Aruch Hashulchan 135:22 writes that it is only permitted to bring a sefer torah to a new place if it is going to be there for at least 3 days of kriyat hatorah. Therefore, he disapproves of those who transport the sefer torah out of the shul to be able to read it in different locations. </ref>
 
==Special Aliyot==
==Special Aliyot==
# It is customary to call up all the children up to receive an aliya called Kol Ne'arim (all the children).<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> The reader reads from "uli'Dan amar" until "Me'ona" and the children recite the brachot. This is done in order to educate the children regarding the reading of the Torah and in order to bless them with the blessing Yaakov gave to Ephraim and Menashe: "Ha'malach ha'goel oti mi'kol ra hu yi'varech et ha'nearim viykare bahem shimi ve'sheim avotai Avraham ve'Yitzhak ve'yidgu la'rov be'kerev ha'aretz" (Breisheit 48, 16). The blessing is given before the children begin their bracha following the Torah reading.<ref>Mishna Brurah 669:13-14</ref>
# It is customary to call up all the children up to receive an aliya called Kol Ne'arim (all the children).<ref>Rama 669:1</ref> The reader reads from "uli'Dan amar" until "Me'ona" and the children recite the brachot. This is done in order to educate the children regarding the reading of the Torah and in order to bless them with the blessing Yaakov gave to Ephraim and Menashe: "Ha'malach ha'goel oti mi'kol ra hu yi'varech et ha'nearim viykare bahem shimi ve'sheim avotai Avraham ve'Yitzhak ve'yidgu la'rov be'kerev ha'aretz" (Breisheit 48, 16). The blessing is given before the children begin their bracha following the Torah reading.<ref>Mishna Brurah 669:13-14</ref>