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I have received a lot of response to my earlier email in which I
wrote<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>I am a
Levi.<br><br>
This morning in shul I was given two Aliyos. How is this
possible?<br><br>
For the record, there was a Kohein
present.</font></blockquote></blockquote><br>
These included<br><br>
<font size=3>You were present at two different minyanim.<br><br>
Perhaps he was a Kohein who had not yet reached the age of a
Bar-Mitzvah.<br><br>
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?<br><br>
I can only assume that there were no bona fide Yisraels extant.
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The gabbai made as mistake.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
mmmmmmmm you got me!<br><br>
Does the first person to get the right answer receive a prize?
:)<br><br>
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<font size=2></font><font size=3>Here is what actually happened.
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I davened at only one minyan this morning and went home shortly after it
concluded. <br><br>
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.) <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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