The Torah Service

Removing the Torah from the Aron Kodesh

• Prayer: Ayn Kamocha and V'yhi Binsoah
• Ark is opened, congregation stands
• Torah is taken from ark; carrier recites shema and prayers

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• Congregants welcome the Torah by kissing it using their tallit or siddur
• Torah is carefully undressed and placed on reading table
• Torah is usually rolled to the correct parashah for the particular shabbat 

Torah Reading

• The parashah is broken down into 7 parts
• People are honored to be called to the Torah by receiving an Aliyah
• The alyah requires the person to recite the blessing before and after the p

The Haftarah

• a concluding reading in the Torah service
• Related to the Torah portion
• Taken from the Nevi'im - the Prophets
• is not "half-a-Torah"

The Torah is lifted, re-dressed, paraded through the congregation again and put back in the ark. Atz Chaim Hee is sung.