[Avodah] Whats the source for calling People for an Aliya to

[LReich]

Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:05:00 +1000
From: Meir Rabi <meirabi at gmail.com>
To: avodah at lists.aishdas.org


"Whats the source for calling People for an Aliya to the T by their name ben
father's name
What is the earliest source and why do we do it?
I believe it is not a universal custom, in some places they just say YaAmod
and point"


From: Elozor Reich

Futher to to the discusion on this topic, I reproduce  below an extract from 
a letter I wrote
home (Manchester) in March 1954 from Chevron Yeshiva. The collection of my 
letters home from
that period are due to be published soon in book form by a Lakewood 
publisher.


"On Shabbos we had in the Yeshiva the aufruf of {R'] Moshe [Sternbuch]. 
Amongst the many visitors for the occasion was R' Yisroel Weltz Shlita, a 
well known Posek [and a sort of halachic patron of R'Moshe] who was ABD of 
Budapest pre-War. Amongst the many curious minhogim in Chevron (mostly from 
the legacy of the Alter of Slabodka) is one that a summons to an Aliyah does 
not include a patronym, i.e. the Gabbai just says " Yaamoid Hachoson (a 
universal title) Avrohom.) If there is more that one Avrohom, he signals the 
one he has chosen. So when Rav Weltz got Shishi, all the Gabbai said was 
"Yaamod Harav Yisroel". Rav Weltz was rather unhappy with this and shouted 
out, "Vus bin ich, A Shtuki?" [ Am I a foundling?] "



Elozor Reich