The conclusion of the public Torah Reading; how and why we lift the Torah; how to do "hagbah."
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Where is it stated that there needs to be a seam down the middle by Hagbah?
it is brought in Shluchan Aruch and the Poskim solely by Glilah, when you roll the Torah together the seem should be in the middle!
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With a very heavy Sefer Torah another good technique is when gripping the handle is to place ones hand high up on the handle so that the hand actually touches the round disk of the aitz chiam. This provides extra leverage to steady the Sefer Torah both during the lift and placing back down on the beama. Excellent Video
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Good questions. I wondered the same thing when I researched this lecture.
My guess is that this custom may have also been prevalent is some Sepharadic lands as well. As customs are not set in stone, it may be that this change lost its primacy in those areas at a later time, as the custom reverted back to the original.
Unfortunately, I was not able to locate the original teaching whilst preparing the lecture, so I do not know if there would perhaps be something there that would shed light on this issue.
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Rabbi, such an amazing amazing "uplifting" lecture, I loved it so much.
One Question:
It was taught that in the Shirey Kinnessis Ha Gadola, Rabbi Chaim Benviniste of Turkey makes a justification of why to move Hagba to after the torah reading, in order to keep the "simple people" around and thereby "forcing" them to be present for the actual improtant aspect, and that was the Reading....
My question: as Jews we go to great lengths to perserve our customs, which are set up in the first place for deliberate reasons - why was it seen as permissible to change a minhag such as hagbah (to after the reading)?
Secondary to this - the Turkish community, were they Ashkenazim? If not, how did that change in Minhag then become adopted by later Ashkenazim?
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Baruch HaShem
After having started attending Orthodox shul, Hagbah has been such a impressive ritual in the service for me. But I was wondering what people are saying at Hagbah. It seemed so basic that I was embarrassed to ask it. But its such a courageous melody has captured me, and always wanted to sing with others. Thanks to this class, I can finally proudly sing "And this is the Torah that Moshe placed before the Children of Israel."
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It really is great to see Jews together doing Hagbah. Rabbi Menachem Posner reminds me of the conductor like in the book of Tehillim. He manages to keep everything in good timing and spacing so all viewers are well informed but can follow along. i also see that we may have choices of what traditions we choose to admire the Torah. HaShem is truly kind to give free will and love for the choice of His Breath of life. So if we had no breath we could not lift the Torah to praise His gift to us some what like a child that could not hug their father.
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Another great presentation that fills in many gaps in my knowledge about the Torah service. In the shul that I grew up in, the minhag (custom) was for the congregation NOT to sit down until after the Torah was opened and ready to be read with the first alliyah. And for hagbah, one did not sit until AFTER the Torah was totally "dressed" and being held before the haftorah was said.
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