Tuesday 11 December 2012

Minhagim at Bevis Marks

This post will be edited and updated from time to time, as we collect the minageem of the weekday shaharith minyan at Bevis Marks. These differ in some respects from the minhag at Lauderdale Road.

1. We begin shaharith with the berachot until birkat kohaneem, then continue with hodu lashem.

2. The bells for the levantador are taken out from the hechal before the service on days when the Torah is read, and placed on the spikes on the tebah, and used then the scroll is upraised. They are returned to the hechal when the scroll is taken back.

3. If there is no minyan, and a minyan materialises during the silent amidah, then the amidah is repeated aloud.

4. Kabbalat Shabbat - the service is begun with the hazan seated, until L'Cha Dodi, when he stands and comes to the reading desk at the end of bame madleekin.

5. The gates ( not the doors - these are closed at hashibeenoo)  to the hechal are closed during the service, and opened just before the torah reading, and they are closed after kaddish titkabbel.

6. At times when the ark is kept open - for example during hoshanganoth - it is closed at the words titkabbel during kaddish.

6. On Hannukah mizmor shir hannukath ha-bayit l'daveed is recited in front of the hechal, after which kaddish for mourners is said. Az Yashir is sung, Ein kelokenu is sung, and after etz hayyeem and mourner's kaddish, ma-oz tzur (first and last stanza only) is sung by the congregation. After this, beth yangakob is not said, but we continue with kavveh el hashem.

7. Someone called up, if a parnas is seated in the banca, exits the tebah on the side towards the parnassim, and bows to the parnas , before acknowledging the congregation by waving his tallith. Otherwise, he leaves the tebah on the opposite side to the banca, and if he has to cross the red carpet in front of the tebah, he briefly pauses and bows toward the hechal.

8. Someone called up to the Torah declares 'hashem imachem' as he walks up the steps to the tebah, before reaching the top of the stairs.

9. When the beracha on bread or wine is pronounced, the recitant pauses at "hangolam" and the congregation respond "boreh p'ri ha-gefen" or "ha-motzi lehem min ho-aretz" as the case may be.

10. In birkat ha-mazon, the recitant pauses at m"a sheachalnu yiyeh l'beracha, and the listeners respond "amen", and so for the subsequent two phrases.

11. When a shaliach tzibbur finishes part of the service, and is replaced by another shaliach tzibbur for a different part of the service, they turn and bow to each other in silence before exchanging positions.








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