[Mesorah] New Shtick

[Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon]

Yes, and no one reads megillah from the side that I have noticed.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:03 AM, R. Rich Wolpoe
<rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> «Yes,1  having one's back to the torah is often given as the reason.
>
>
> 2(The other one I have heard is that it is so people will realize that the
> Haftarah is not being read from a klaf.)»
>
> I buy 2 but not one, re: hafatra while the Torah is there.  Megillah is
> read w/o the presence of the Torah
>
> R Hofmeister rejects 1 also
>
> What about reading the Torah without a raised bimah? Do people in front of
> the Torah need to turn around?
> Shalom and Regards, RRW




-- 
Jeremy R. Simon, MD, PhD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Bioethics
Columbia University
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