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Traditional blessings before Torah reading.
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 