Hagbah and Gelilah (video)

Lifting the Torah at the end of the service, and wrapping it up.

Learn how to lift up a Torah scroll during services on Shabbat and weekdays, and how to wrap up or dress a Torah. Rabbi Steven Exler and Tamar Fox teach us how it’s done.

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