A really weird thing that happened on Shabbat

[reb_hillel]

So, I was asked to lein (=read the Torah portion) at a certain shul in Jerusalem this Shabbat (Ki Tavo). Yes, the full parashah, for any of you out there used to only reading a third). I was asked on Sunday, a full 6 days before the Shabbat upon which I was supposed to read. I did what I normally do, and prepared most of it on Friday night, the

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[wotyfree]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[awful_dynne]

Wow. When you said strange, I never in a million years thought that this is what you meant. Wow.

[wotyfree]

WRT leining--many shuls have the practice of splitting up the reading and having one person lein each aliyah. In a shul with that practice, it would be unusual to ask one person to do all of it, and one week would be considered short notice since it's unusual.

[spin0za1]

Yeah, I've been trying to explain that to him. He keeps insisting that it's wrong and weird.

[wotyfree]

Wrong and weird why? Because people don't normally say brachot for the aliyot they read?

[reb_hillel]

weird, because it's unusual for the places i've been to. i don't remember saying it's wrong, although when i think about it, it's probably problematic

[curious_reader]

In Assif it depends who is present. Usually we always have the same people reading the parashah, normally 2 or 3. We often give a less experience person a chance. They often make mistakes and the more knowledgeable people correct them but that is how they learn.

[hatam_soferet]

Be thankful it was only in pencil. I've seen it in pen. BLUE pen, noch. And once I saw where someone had corrected mistakes with correction fluid, I jest not.