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Auctioning Aliyot
Synagogue honors — being called up to the Torah (aliyah), lifting the scroll (hagbahah), and opening the ark — are sold to the highest bidder. Common among Sephardic and German ('Yekkish') Jews.
Public auctioning of synagogue aliyot, hagbahah, opening the ark — Sephardic + Yekkish.
Key passages(3)
Chazon Ovadia (metadata) :: aliyot-auction :: general↗curated_attribution
Chazon Ovadia · Ovadia Yosef
High
Curated Attribution (metadata) :: aliyot-auction :: Orach Chayim 282↗curated_attribution
High
High