[Avodah] How I got two Aliyos today

[Prof. Levine]

I have received a lot of response to my earlier email in which I wrote

>>I am a Levi.
>>
>>This morning in shul I was given two Aliyos. How is this possible?
>>
>>For the record, there was a Kohein present.

These included

You were present at two different minyanim.

Perhaps he was a Kohein who had not yet reached the age of a Bar-Mitzvah.

You stayed around for the second minyan and you were the only Levi? 
There was a pesul in the Torah requiring another bracha for the new Torah?

I can only assume that there were no bona fide Yisraels extant.

The gabbai made as mistake.

If the baal koreh makes a serious mistake, such as omitting a word or 
reading by heart, and it's not noticed til after the concluding 
bracha, i would guess that the aliya would be repeated.

mmmmmmmm you got me!

Does the first person to get the right answer receive a prize? :)


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Here is what actually happened.

I davened at only one minyan this morning and went home shortly after 
it concluded.

The Baal Kriah, who is a Kohein, was called up, and he leined from 
last week's parsha, Shoftim!  (BTW, I believe that the correct term 
is Baal Kriah and not Baal Korei as some wrote me.)

Then I was called up, made a bracha, and he continued to lein from 
Shoftim until someone stopped him and made him aware that he was 
leining the wrong parsha.  (I did not notice this!)  The sefer Torah 
was rolled to this week's parsha, I was told to make another bracha, 
and then the Baal Kriah leined the first two Aliyos, the portions for 
Kohein and Levi, for me!  After this a Yisroel was called up for the 
third aliya.


Yitzchok Levine 
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