Tuesday, February 25, 2014

A Sephardic Person Should Go To A Sephardic Reading Of Parshat Zachor

A Sephardic Should Go To A Sephardic Reading Of Parshat Zachor
Day: Tuesday
Date: February 25, 2014
Parshat: Pekudei, Shekalim
Source: Yalkut Yosef: 685


One should follow along in a Chumash but not read along while Parshat Zachor is being read, since one needs to hear it being read from the Torah. Even if one does not fully understand the words being read he has still fulfilled the mitzvah to remember amalek since he understands the general idea. It is proper for a Sephardic person to hear Parshat Zachor being read by a Sephardic reader in the Sephardic tradition. Likewise, Ashkenazim should also hear it read by an Ashkanzi treader. Sephardic students in Ashkenazi yeshivot should listen it being read in the Sephardic tradition from a Sephardic Torah scroll. On any other Shabbat it is fine for a Sephardic person to hear the Ashkenazi reading and vice versa.


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