Lekutey Halakhos Shiur with Rabbi Nasan Maimon - October 8, 2026

Rab Nosson Zal continues, "Ve'ze bechinat mitzvat hagbo'at haTorah achar hakri'ah." Based on what we've been learning till now throughout this halacha, where Rab Nosson Zal really went into an incredible explanation about the topic of money, both the positive and the negative aspects of it, now he says this is very much tied into the mitzvah of lifting up the Sefer Torah after reading it.

"She'noagen liknoy s'mitzah zu bedom yamikorim." Whereby the custom is to pay a lot of money for this privilege, the privilege buying the zechut of Hagbah, the mitzvah of Hagbah.

"Kamei she'kosu beShulchan Aruch," as is brought in Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, chapter 147, right in the beginning.

I remember my rebbi, Rav Rosenfeld, used to love to, to buy Hagbah, to have the privilege of having Hagbah.

And the Gemara says that the one who does Hagbah gets credit for the entire Torah reading, all the aliyot.

In some ways, it's better than any and all the other aliyot.

"Ki ikar hagbo'ah hu al yedei hu ha'amudim shel haTorah," because lifting up the Torah-- Now, here we have several interesting points.

In Yerushalayim, there's a custom among some that the Hagbah is done before they read the Torah.

When they're about to start reading the Torah, the person does Hagbah and shows the entire congregation where they're gonna be starting to read from.

That's number one.

Number two, the Sefer Torah of the Sephardim is different than ours a little bit.

Ours comes with two pillars, sort of, two beams, and, and the person lifts it up like this.

It should be open.

At least three columns th- should be open for the people to be able to see, and turns around so that the whole community is able, the whole-- ev- all the people in the shul are able to see it.

The Sephardim, their Sefer Torah comes generally in a wooden case.

Some- Very often, that wooden case is inside of a silver or gold case.

And there also, when they take out the Sefer Torah, when they take it out of the Aron Kodesh, the person opens it up in order for the people to be able to see where they're gonna be starting to read from.

And then takes it to where the, the tevah, to where they're gonna put down the Sefer Torah.

And very often there again, lifts it up, opens it up to show everybody in the shul where they're gonna be starting to read from.

But Rab Nosson Zal here is referring to the custom, obviously, that took place in Ukraine, where he was at the time, and generally in Chutz Laritz, where it's done at the end of the Torah reading.

Rab Nosson Zal says now, "Ki ikar hagbo'ah hu al yedei hu ha'amudim shel Torah." 'Cause the way that the Torah is being lifted up is through those wooden poles on both sides around which the parchment is rolled.

"Ve'amudei haTorah hein bechinat tomchei Oraisah." And those wooden poles represent the supporters of Torah.

"Bechinat vavei hu ha'amudim." Like we had in the Mishkan, those pillars, uh, upon which the, the, the f- the wall around the Mishkan was built.

"Shezeh hu bechinat mamon kayedua." And this refers to money specifically, as is known.

As Rab Bezezel brings in chapter forty-one on Likutiman, those who support Torah with their money.