[Avodah] Women reading the ketuba

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> Actually, the tochakhah is considered a less-than-complementary aliyah,
> and there is a minhag to bedavka give it to the rav so that the person
> getting it would not be insulted. But that's just an objection to RJK's
> phrasing, not his thesis.

I've never seen that - where is it practised?  The minhag with which I'm
familiar actually fits the model we're discussing: the gabbai doesn't call
anyone at all, so b'leis breira the baal koreh says the brochos himself.
(I also remember, as a child, being shooed away from in front of the bimah
during that aliyah, so that when the BK read the curses, in the second
person, they should not appear to be aimed at whoever was standing in front
of him.)

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