[Avodah] Fwd: Kissing Places In A Sefer Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, December 9, 2006 11:04 pm, SBA wrote:
: 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?

: 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.

We touch the beginning and end with a tallis or the gartel (if no tallis is
being worn). I have no seen this sweeping thing. The Muncaczer's argument that
it will lead to qilqul ST seems compelling.

As for why... It's so that one knows what one is supposed to read. That
enables (1) making birkhas haTorah over la'asiyasan rather than looking for
the place, as well as (2) being more specific as to what one is mentally
appointing the baal qeriah as a shaliach for.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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