Published December 7, 2004
 
 
Ask Rabbi Dan
by Rabbi Dan S. Wiko PhD
 
  Issue: 5.11
 
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Yitzchak asks:

Why do we hold a pinky at the Sefer Torah during hagba?

Thank you. -Yitzchak"


Hi Yitzchak:

The extending of the pinky during Hagba as well as during the Torah procession through the shul is a Sephardic custom which I believe is intended to turn one's finger into a Yad and, through that symbolic gesture, having "read" Torah oneself.

Shalom.
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