<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -26.2pt 10pt 0in;" align="left">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -26.2pt 10pt 0in;" align="left"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When one is called up for an aliyah, the Torah should already be rolled to the correct place. This is one of the many functions of a shul gabbai to ensure that this has been done, the reason being to avoid inconveniencing the congregation. We learn this from the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur who would first read from parashas Acharei Mos, (which today is the leining for Yom Kippur) and he would then roll the Torah to parashas Emor, which is very close and again read, (which today is part of the leining for the first day of Succos). He would not however roll the Torah to parashas Pinchas which is a relatively long way away. (Yoma 68b, 69b-70a) Thus in a shul which uses a specific Sefer Torah just for Shabbos and Yom Tov, the gabbai does not need to roll the Torah between Yom Kippur and Succos (in years when there is no Shabbos between them). </span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">During the course of thousands of years in the past, a person receiving an Aliyah to the Torah in Eretz Yisroel would not have the same leining as for a person in Chutz La&rsquo;aretz. Unlike Chutz La&rsquo;aretz where the Torah cycle is just one year, in Eretz Yisroel until the conquest by the Crusaders at the end of the 11th century, the Torah cycle was 3 years. The Jews then fled to Fustat (Old Cairo) in Egypt and one of the shuls established there was the Eretz Yisroel shul where they continued the 3 year cycle. It would seem according to Rav Yissachar ben Mordechai ibn Susan, (Tikkun Yissachar, Venice: 5339 / 1579, page 33b) who lived in Egypt during the 16th century, that at that period, this 3 year cycle was still in force in this shul.</span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A man goes to shul in Chutz La&rsquo;aretz on a Monday and receives an Aliyah to the Torah and the leining is from parshas Korach. On the following day he flies to Eretz Yisroel and on the Thursday he requests and gets an Aliyah so that he may say birchas hagomel, but he notices that the leining comes from parshas Chukas! What has happened?!! The answer is that that year was a leap year and the 8th day of Pesach was on Shabbos and so the leining was that for Pesach. However in Eretz Yisroel (where there is only one day Yom Tov) that Shabbos was the day after Pesach and so the leining was that for a Shabbos. As a result, Eretz Yisroel leads Chutz La&rsquo;aretz by one parashah. The equalisation comes when the parshios Matos and Masei are separated in Eretz Yisroel, whereas in Chutz La&rsquo;aretz they are joined together. (This is the most extreme example of a difference in the parshios between Eretz Yisroel and Chutz La&rsquo;aretz and lasts for about three and a half months. There are also other cases which are of much shorter duration.)</span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What is the maximum number of consecutive days that one can follow &ldquo;the procedure for getting an Aliyah&rdquo; &ndash; or in other words what is the maximum number of consecutive days that one can have Krias Hatorah? In Eretz Yisroel the answer is 10, and it occurs when Chanukah begins on a Friday or Sunday. In such a case one has the 8 days of Chanukah plus the day before and the day after the festival. In Chutz La&rsquo;aretz, one can go even higher and have 11 days. When Succos begins on a Tuesday, one has the 9 days of the festival plus the day before (Monday) and the day after (Thursday) the festival.</span></span></span></p>