[Avodah] Fwd: Kissing Places In A Sefer Torah

[Daniel Israel]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:25:55 -0700 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> 
wrote:
>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?
>
>: 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'm confused.  The responses here seem to suggest that this is not 
a Lubavitch minhag, yet I, like the original poster, was under the 
impression it was.  In fact, the only people I know who do this are 
either Chabad themselves, or became frum at a Chabad shul.  So 
whose minhag is this, actually?

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu