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What is the religious significance being called to open the Ark, taking out the Torah Scroll and then proceed with the Torah to the Bimah (pesiha)? In our shul the same person then will open the Ark for the return of the Torah (hakhnasah). Also, any levels of religious significance between Alyah 3 thru 7 (for Shabbos) shlishi thru Shvi'i? Maftir Aliyah - I understand the special significance, but in our shul the one requirement is to be able to read from Haftarah (not everybody can read in Hebrew). I also understand that Hagbah is like all the aliyot combined - very high significance, but what about Glilah?
There are various kibbudim (honors) which are given out in order to let people be involved with the service. Opening/closing the ark and being part of the removal and return of the torah is called "p'ticha" (opening). It is sometimes given to a man whose wife is in the later stages of pregnancy, as an honor to symbolize an easy labor. Among the aliyot (being called to make the blessings of the torah) the third one (the first which an Israelite can receive) is considered in some circles to be a large honor, and then the 6th, and then others. In some weeks, certain aliyot are important because of the content which is read, and they are reserved for certain people as a show of deference.
The person called up for the (usually) 8th aliyah, the "maftir" oftrn also reads the portion from the prophets after the torah reading, but sometimes, he just makes the blessings on the torah and someone else reads the prophets.
While the talmud does say that rolling the Torah is a large honor, that practice has been split into two parts. I don't think that, in most synagogues, people analyze what type of honor they receive -- they are just honored to receive one.
I wonder if there are any Jews reading this thread who might agree with this...
"I am now a firm anti-Zionist," Raine told Al Jazeera, explaining that his ideas developed as a teenager when he could not reconcile his Jewish beliefs with Zionist ones.
"We as Jews are religiously committed to 'tikkun olam', 'mending the world', and for centuries, Jews have stood at the forefront of struggles against oppression and exploitation," he said.
I wonder if there are any Jews reading this thread who might agree with this...
"I am now a firm anti-Zionist," Raine told Al Jazeera, explaining that his ideas developed as a teenager when he could not reconcile his Jewish beliefs with Zionist ones.
"We as Jews are religiously committed to 'tikkun olam', 'mending the world', and for centuries, Jews have stood at the forefront of struggles against oppression and exploitation," he said.
I don't. I think that the idea of "tikkun olam" has been co-opted and misapplied in a variety of socially convenient instances. The language of the article is also overly reductionist and incomplete.
I don't. I think that the idea of "tikkun olam" has been co-opted and misapplied in a variety of socially convenient instances. The language of the article is also overly reductionist and incomplete.
This!
Tikkun olam starts with oberserving Torah and Halacha. Has nothing to do with feeding goyim in soup kitchens.
I wonder if there are any Jews reading this thread who might agree with this...
"I am now a firm anti-Zionist," Raine told Al Jazeera, explaining that his ideas developed as a teenager when he could not reconcile his Jewish beliefs with Zionist ones.
"We as Jews are religiously committed to 'tikkun olam', 'mending the world', and for centuries, Jews have stood at the forefront of struggles against oppression and exploitation," he said.
Tikkun olam means repairing the world, not committing ethnic suicide. Relying on the Diaspora alone was a form of suicide, if one looks at the Russian slaughter of Jews continuing through the 1800's and 1900's and the Nazi Holocaust.
Agreed but perhaps but not in this case to use the term גויים(Goyim) to refer to non jews as less fortunate it comes across as crass
I don't find it offensive at all, just what is.
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