## Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim Siman 141

###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:1
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**דיני הקורא והמקרא. ובו ח סעיפים:**
צריך לקרות מעומד ואפילו לסמוך עצמו לכותל או לעמוד אסור אלא אם כן הוא בעל בשר: הגה וכן החזן הקורא צריך לעמוד עם הקורא [מרדכי הל' קטנו']:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
**The Laws of The Reader and The One Who Reads [For Another], Containing 8 S'ifim**
One must read [from the Torah] while standing; and even to lean oneself on a wall or pillar is forbidden unless it is a heavy-set person. Gloss: And so too, the chazzan who calls up [the readers] must stand with the reader. (Mordekhai, Halakhot Ketanot)


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:2
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לא יקראו שנים אלא העולה קורא וש"צ שותק או ש"צ קורא והעולה לא יקרא בקול רם ומכל מקום צריך הוא לקרות עם ש"ץ כדי שלא תהא ברכתו לבטלה אלא שצריך לקרות בנחת שלא ישמיע לאזניו (ואפי' משמיע לאזניו ליכא למיחש דלא עדיף מתפל' כדלעיל סי' ק"א) [ד"ע]:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
Two [people] may not read [together], rather the one got called up should read and the prayer leader is quiet, or the prayer leader should read and the one who got called up does not read in a loud voice. In any case, one [who is called up] must read [aloud] with the prayer leader so that his blessing should not have been in vain, but rather should read along quietly such that it cannot be heard by one's own ears.Gloss: And even if one's own ears can hear, this is not a concern, for it is no different than [hearing himself while] praying [the Amidah] as was seen above in siman 101. [His own opinion].


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:3
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יש נוהגים להעמיד מי שמקרא לעולה מלה במלה ואחר שגומ' המקרא המלה אומרה העולה:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
There are those who practice to have someone who reads word-for-word stand in [as an agent] for the person called up, [reading] word-by-word, and after the reader finishes each word, the person called up says it.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:4
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אם ש"צ רוצה לברך לעצמו ולקרות צריך שיעמוד אחר אצלו שכשם שנתנה תורה ע"י סרסור כך אנו צריכים לנהוג בה ע"י סרסור:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
If the prayer leader wants to bless for themself and read, another must stand next to them; because just like the Torah was given through a intermediary, so too we need to practice [reading] from it by means of an intermediary.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:5
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אין הצבור רשאים לענות אמן עד שתכלה ברכה מפי הקורא ואין הקורא רשאי לקרות בתורה עד שיכלה אמן מפי הצבור:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
The congregation is not permitted to answer "amen" until the blessing is concluded aloud by the reader. And the reader is not permitted to read from the Torah until "amen" is concluded aloud by the congregation.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:6
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יכולים לקרות ב' אחים זה אחר זה והבן אחר האב ואין מניחין אלא בשביל עין הרע. ואפי' אם א' הוא השביעי וא' הוא המפטיר לא יקראו השני בשמו משום עין הרע [מהרי"ל]:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
Two siblings may be called up [for aliyot], one after the other, and [so too] a child after a parent. But we do not allow it because of the "evil eye"). And even if one was [called up for] the seventh [aliyah] and one was [called up for] maftir [the concluding reader], the second one should not be called up with [that person's] name because of the "evil eye". [Mahari"l]


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:7
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העולה למגדל עולה בפתח שהיא לו בדרך קצרה ממקומו וירד מהמגדל בדרך אחר שהיא לו בדרך ארוכה עד מקומו ואם ב' הדרכים שוים עולה בפתח שהיא לו בדרך ימין וירד בפתח שכנגדו [ולא ירד עד שעלה כבר הראוי לקרות אחריו] (מרדכי הגדול]:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
The one who ascends to the raised platform [i.e. the bimah] should go up from the opening that is the shortest way from one's place [i.e. the place where one is praying] and descend from the platform on a different path which is the longest path back to one's place. And if two paths are equal [in distance from his place], one ascends by the opening that is on the right-hand path and descends by the opening on the opposite side. (And one should not descend until the person who is designated to read after one has already come up. (Mordekhai Hagadol))


###### Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 141:8
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כל תיבה שהיא קרי וכתיב הלכה למשה מסיני שתהא נכתבת כמו שהיא בתורה ונקרית בענין אחר ומעשה בא' שקרא כמו שהיא כתובה בפני גדולי הדור הרבנים ה"ר יצחק אבוהב וה"ר אברהם ואלנסי שמואל ואלנסי בנו ז"ל והתרו בו שיקרא כפי המסורה ולא רצה ונדוהו והורידוהו מהתיבה:

**Mishna Berura Yomi:**
And word which is read [one way] and written [another way], it is a "Halakha l'Moshe Mi-Sinai" ["A law transmitted to Moses on Sinai"] that is should be written like it is in the Torah, but read in a different manner [i.e. read differently than it is written]. It happened once that someone read it the way it was written (and he was standing) before the great leaders of the generation, the Rabbis: R. Yitzchak Abuhav, R. Avraham Valenci, and R. Shmuel Valenci, his son, (may their memories be a blessing) - and they warned him to read it according to the tradition [i.e. not the way it was written], and he did not want to, and so they banned him and made him go down from the Ark.