{"id":35846,"date":"2014-04-09T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=35846"},"modified":"2016-09-20T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:29:00","slug":"information-torah-readings-chanukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/information-torah-readings-chanukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Torah Reading for Chanukah: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Because Chanukah is an eight-day holiday, and a week is only seven days, there has to be at least one &#8220;Shabbat Chanukah,&#8221; when Shabbat and Chanukah coincide. This year, we have a special blessing: <strong>two &#8220;Shabbatot Chanukah,&#8221;<\/strong> which can only happen when the first and eighth days fall on Shabbat, as they do this year.<\/p>\n<p>2. Because Chanukah begins on the 25th Day of the <strong>Month of Kislev<\/strong>, and no month in the Hebrew Calendar exceeds thirty days in length, <strong>Rosh Chodesh Tevet<\/strong> must fall within Chanukah. The Sixth Day of Chanukah is always <strong>Rosh Chodesh<\/strong> and in most years, as in this year of 5760, the Seventh Day is also Rosh Chodesh.<\/p>\n<p>3. On both of the Shabbatot Chanukah, two <strong>Sifrei Torah<\/strong> are required. For the first seven <strong>&#8220;Aliyot,&#8221;<\/strong> the<strong> &#8220;Parshah&#8221;<\/strong> of the Week is read from the <strong>first Sefer<\/strong>. The presence of Chanukah is reflected in the &#8220;Maftir,&#8221; when the Reading for that Day of Chanukah is read from the <strong>second Sefer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>4. Again, on Rosh Chodesh, two Sifrei Torah are required. The usual number of &#8220;Aliyot&#8221; associated with Rosh Chodesh is four, and that remains the same on Chanukah. The first three are dedicated to the regular Rosh Chodesh Reading (BaMidbar 28: 1-15), and are read from the first Sefer. The fourth &#8220;Aliyah,&#8221; taken from the second Sefer, is the Reading for the particular Day of Chanukah &#8211; the Sixth Day, always, and the Seventh Day also, in most years.<\/p>\n<p>5. On the &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; Days of Chanukah (that is, not Shabbat and not Rosh Chodesh), the procedure for &#8220;Kriat HaTorah,&#8221; Reading of the Torah, is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Only one Sefer Torah is used, and the Chanukah Reading is divided into three &#8220;Aliyot.&#8221; The Reading for the current Day of Chanukah is divided between the first two &#8220;Aliyot,&#8221; and the entire Reading for the next Day of Chanukah is used for the third &#8220;Aliyah.&#8221; (Click below for examples of this somewhat complicated procedure)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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