Pasul, again
May. 8th, 2007 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidShabbat morning I davened at Tehillah. During the second aliyah the lainer found a problem with the sefer Torah, serious enough to pasul it.
The decision: read the rest of the parasha without aliyot (and the person currently receiving an aliyah did not say the after-bracha). No maftir, and kaddish was moved after the haftarah (I think; it was definitely moved later). Regular hagbah, glilah, and returning of the sefer Torah.
This is not the first, nor the second, time an error has been found in this sefer Torah. The minyan was given the sefer Torah by Save-a-Torah, which refurbishes sifrei Torah that have survived the Holocaust but no longer have communities to use them. I talked with one of the minyan chairs during kiddush, and apparently the organization checked the whole thing before it arrived, 'by computer.' I'm not really sure what that means. Last time there was an error found, there happened to be a sofer in town who could do the fix quickly, but now there is the question of whether it's necessary to have the whole scroll checked by a human, which costs serious money, not easy for a small minyan to afford.
The minyan meets Shabbat morning only twice/solar month, so there are parshiyot that have not yet been read, and I wonder how many other issues there might be.
As always, if there are words you'd like explicated, let me know; I'm lazy enough not to bother unless someone asks.
The decision: read the rest of the parasha without aliyot (and the person currently receiving an aliyah did not say the after-bracha). No maftir, and kaddish was moved after the haftarah (I think; it was definitely moved later). Regular hagbah, glilah, and returning of the sefer Torah.
This is not the first, nor the second, time an error has been found in this sefer Torah. The minyan was given the sefer Torah by Save-a-Torah, which refurbishes sifrei Torah that have survived the Holocaust but no longer have communities to use them. I talked with one of the minyan chairs during kiddush, and apparently the organization checked the whole thing before it arrived, 'by computer.' I'm not really sure what that means. Last time there was an error found, there happened to be a sofer in town who could do the fix quickly, but now there is the question of whether it's necessary to have the whole scroll checked by a human, which costs serious money, not easy for a small minyan to afford.
The minyan meets Shabbat morning only twice/solar month, so there are parshiyot that have not yet been read, and I wonder how many other issues there might be.
As always, if there are words you'd like explicated, let me know; I'm lazy enough not to bother unless someone asks.