[Avodah] Fwd: Kissing Places In A Sefer Torah

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From: RallisW at aol.com
Does anyone know where the Lubavitch minhog of touching one's tzitzis  to
both the begining and end of an Aliyoh comes  from?
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Presumably you are referring to sweeping the Tallis over the 
section being layned - before and after the brochos.

AFAIK, this is not an excludive Lubavitch minhag, but done by all.

See Shaarei Efrayim (Shaar 4:3 - and also mentioned in 4:17 
giving a  reason for it)  saying that it is a 'minhag vasikin'.

However it seems to mention this only before the first brocho -
and not the last.

The Munkatcher Rav zt'l in his Nimukei OCh (s.139) strongly 
disapproves of this, vezeh leshono: 
"...aderaba gorem harbeh kilkul leST..." and 
"...kamo pe'amim biseforov hayekorim mevi minhagim she'einom 
rak minhag am haaretz me'iroy...bimechilas kevod Toroso...gormo 
lehachriv harbeh ST ulemoch'kon ad sh'hevion liy'dei psul, Hashem 
yatzileinu.."

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