Temple Rodef Shalom

2100 Westmoreland Street
Falls Church, Virginia 22043
info@templerodefshalom.org

Tel: 703/532-2217
Fax: 703/536-0754

  Temple Rodef Shalom, a Reform Jewish congregation serving Northern Virginia

Our Clergy and Senior StaffWe Welcome You to our Temple!Our Camp is a Blast!Lots of Fun activities

 
  For Aliyah
 
 
 

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Are You Being Called Up For An Aliyah?

 

Mazal tov!  You are being given a great honor. Your job is to read or chant the Torah Blessings before and after the Bar or Bat mitzvah reads from the Torah.  If you've never done this before, don't worry, it's pretty easy! 

 

Materials to Help You Prepare

To make it easy for you, we have several resources available to help you learn how to read or chant the Torah blessings, as well as learn the choreography of the Aliyah ritual. Choose from the following:

 

Blessings Sheet - Click here.

Open and print the Torah Blessings sheet so that you can read from the Hebrew, transliterated Hebrew (English letters) or simply read the English translation.

 

Video

Watch a short instructional video on how to perform an Aliyah at Temple Rodef Shalom. Click in the middle of the window below to play.

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Audio Recording - Click this play button:

Listen to the Torah blessings chanted by our Cantor.

 

Interactive Web Site

Click here to open a new window at Barvas Press, where you can click on the blessings and hear them chanted or read.

 

Or click here for a different interactive web site by Behrman House where you can click on each word of the Torah blessings. If you choose this site, click on Chapter 3, Torah Blessings.

 

Instruction Sheet - Click here.

Click here to print the full instructions in written form, along with the blessings.

 

Thank you for performing this important mitzvah!

 

Computer Resources You May Need

If some of the above resources fail to open or work, you may need one of the following resources to download to your computer:

 

For PDF files that won't open, you may need the free Adobe Reader program. If you need it, you can download and install the free Adobe Reader program here.

 

For the audio recording, if it won't open, you may need Apple Quicktime to play the mp3 file. If you need it, you can download and install the free Apple Quicktime plug-in for your browser here, or simply click the down arrow at the right of the player, and select "Save as Source" to save it to your computer to play anytime.

 

The video is an Adobe Flash video.  If you need the free Flash player plug-in for your browser, you can download and install it here.


 

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