![]() ![]() He starts off by pointing out that we find in hilchos Megila siman 690 that one may not help the chazzan out of a chumash for fear of the listeners listening to the helper and not the reader, and we must therefore assume the makrei in our case is reading out of the Torah and not a chumash. See Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim siman 141 siff 3.įor clarification, see the Biur Halacha who ends up explaining that the Makrei is the one reading out of a chumash, and the Olah is the one reading the Torah. Had it been that the one reading out of a chumash reads first, and afterwards the other reads out of the Torah, it should be fine. He's not really reading any words from the Torah as a normal B'al Kri'ah would. In short, the open Torah is there as a "prop". ![]() He knows where the parsha starts, but has no idea, when looking in the Torah where the pasuk ends, or where the sequence of words that the rabbi said ends. But the reader is not moving the yad and not following any of the words in the Torah itself. The reader repeats exactly what the rabbi said - the words and the trope. The rabbi reads a few words from his chumash with the trope. Person getting the aliyah makes the bracha. Another stands in front of an open Torah holding the yad- the reader. ![]() The rabbi stands on the side of the Torah table with the Chumash. To clarify b/c of comments: - My browser won't let me add comments, and, in this case, it's better to edit the question): Instead of the mimicking, would it have been better just to skip the Torah reading altogether? If this was not a halchically acceptable method, did those who received aliyot make a bracha levatalah (blessing in vain)? Is this halachically acceptable for public Torah reading? It seems that the "reader" wasn't actually reading he was just mimicking what the rabbi was saying and the Torah was there as a prop. The rabbi appoints someone from the minyan and says, "You will open the Torah and while I read from a Chumash with trope, you'll repeat after me and follow along in the Torah." And this is how the Torah reading is done that day. It is not just a question of not knowing the trope or pronouncing the words - they can't read the Hebrew writing in the Torah. The shul's regular Ba'al Kri'ah is absent, and no one else in the shul can read from the Torah - not even the rabbi. It's time for Kri'at Hatorah (public Torah reading) on a Monday. ![]()
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