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Traditional blessings before Torah reading.
In addition to reading the text below and listening to my instructions, you may also watch this instructional video: https://youtu.be/i_9tD7lG8pc or others like it that you can search for online under “how to have an aliyah.”
Click here for the blessing after the Torah reading and instructions for after the final blessing.
Excerpt from Jules Harlow, Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat and Festivals, (New York: Rabbinical Assembly, 1998), p. 142.
Reconstructionist blessings before Torah reading.
Click below to hear Reconstructionist Torah blessings:
Excerpt from Leyamim Nora’im: Prayerbook for the Days of Awe (Philadelphia: Reconstructionist Press, 1999), p. 474.
Daniel Aronson 