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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 621

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621 ‎[1] **“The order of the reading of the Torah and of circumcision on Yom Kippur” - Containing six paragraphs.**

We take out (from the ark) two Torah scrolls. In the first Torah six men read from the portion “אחרי מות”, (Leviticus 16:1-18:30) until “and he did as the Lord commanded (Moses)”, (Leviticus 16:34). But if (Yom Kippur) falls on Shabbat, seven (men read from the first Torah), and the *Maftir* (the last reader) reads from the second (Torah scroll) from the portion, *Pinḥas*, (Numbers 25:10-30:1), the section “and you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month”, (Numbers 29:7-11). The *Maftir* (the *Haftarah* section from the Prophets) comes from Isaiah, “and shall say, cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way” until “for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it”, (Isaiah 57:14-58:14). ‎[2] If there is a circumcision on Yom Kippur; then they circumcize between the (Morning Prayer prior to the *Keri’at Shema* named) “יוצר”, “Creator,” and the Additional Service after the reading of the Torah. And after the circumcision we say the prayer, “אשרי” But the custom is to circumcize after the “אשרי”, (מנהגים). And if the circumcision takes place in a location where it is necessary to leave the synagogue, we do not circumcize him until after the Torah scroll is returned to the ark, and then they return (to the synagogue) and say the (reader’s) *Kaddish*. ‎[3] We bless the circumcision without a cup (of wine). (There are those who say that we bless (the circumcision) with a cup (of wine) and we give it to the infant who is 179 circumcized, and this is the custom.) ‎[4] In the Additional Service the reader recites the order of the *Avodah*.

Hagah*: It is customary to fall on their faces, prostrate, as they say the section of the *Avodah*, “and the priests and the people…” and also to prostrate when saying the *Aleinu* Prayer. But the reader is forbidden to move from his place at the time of the prayer in order to prosstrate, and one should object to those who do this (prostrate). ‎[5] The order of the confession is; I have sinned, I have transgressed, I have offended, etc. ‎[6] It is customary to pledge (to vow) charity on Yom Kippur for the dead, (and they remember their souls because the dead also have atonement on Yom Kippur), (מרדכי).

Version Info

Version: Hilkhot Yom ha-Kippurim, trans. by Jan M. Brahms. HUC, 1976

Source: http://library.huc.edu/pdf/theses/Brahms_Jan_M-CN-Rab-1976_rdf.pdf

License: CC-BY

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