1) After the recital of Hallel [B'Tzibbur] on Rosh Chodesh, Kaddish Tiskabel is recited, signifying the completion of Shacharis, and is then followed by the reading of the Torah and then by Tefilas Musaf. (Shulchan Aruch Siman 423:1 and Mishna Berura S"K 1)
On Rosh Chodesh four people are called to the Torah for an Aliyah. We do not read less than four Aliyos, nor may we add any additional Aliyos. There is no Haftarah following the Krias HaTorah of Rosh Chodesh. (ibid.)
2) If possible, it is proper to try and receive an Aliyah on Rosh Chodesh. The fourth Aliyah on Rosh Chodesh is considered the optimal one to receive and an Aliyah on the second day of a two day Rosh Chodesh is better. (See Ben Ish Chai Parashas Vayikra, year two, Siman 20. See also Ma'aseh Rav Siman 154 that the Gaon of Vilna would receive the fourth Aliyah each Rosh Chodesh).
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Is it ok to say bircas hamazon or al hamichya standing up?
Answer:
It is best to try and sit, however, if said standing you are Yotze B'Dieved. (See Aruch HaShulchan Siman 183:8)
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Question:
Please prove the authenticity of our Torah.
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
So we say to the questioner, you have the floor, please disprove it. Please disprove the authenticity of our Torah. The Torah is here. Here it is, and we are here. We are the nation that claims our fathers gave us this Torah that they received from their fathers, and we received a tradition that Moshe our teacher gave it to them, and our entire nation stood at Har Sinai and they heard Hakadosh Baruch Hu say to Moshe and give him a mandate in their presence. Moshe Rabbeinu, you're going to speak to this people for Me from now on, and therefore Moshe Rabbeinu when he gave us the
Torah was mandated by Hakadosh Baruch Hu in the presence of 600,000 males between 20 and 60 years of age, not to mention the elderly ones, the young ones and the women. That's our claim; no nation in the world ever claimed such a claim. Not the Mohammedans. Of course the Mohammedans claim that the Bible is true because the Jews say so. Christians claim the Bible is true, because the Jews say so. The Vikings didn't have any traditions, the Buddhists didn't have any traditions, they made no such claims. So therefore if anybody wants to bring proofs against the authenticity of the Torah, we'll give him the floor.
We are the only ones who claim that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave it to us. And if you'll ask, how do we know that it's true? So we'll ask you a question: How do you know that there was a George Washington? Prove George Washington. So you say there are books. We also have books. We have books, too. So you say Washington was recent and our claims are old. Anybody around here saw George Washington? Anybody saw a man who saw George Washington around here? How do you know he was there? It's emunah; you believe people. So should we believe nations of disorderly people, there were so many shikurim among them, and so many club wielders, so many roughnecks. Such a nation testifies that George Washington was present, and we accept their testimony. Well, there are so many documents; there are a lot of documents. You want documents? Josephus wrote two thousand years ago a big document. So that's thousands of years ago, so that's as good evidence as any evidence that you'll produce for anything that happened three hundred years ago in America.
Therefore we are standing on solid ground, we have a historic tradition. We are not one person, we are a nation. And our nation always was united behind this. We never had a single Jew who disbelieved that Moshe received the Torah from Hashem, up till a hundred fifty years ago. Not the Karaites, not the Sadducees, none of them disbelieved that, - they all believed. There wasn't a single Jew up to the time of the German assimilationists and reformers one hundred fifty years ago; there wasn't a single Jew who disbelieved in the Torah. So our entire nation was behind this tradition. Not to mention the fact that the Christians and Mohammedans all say the same thing about our Torah, that we received the Torah.
So therefore if anybody wants to bring proofs against the authenticity of the Torah, we'll give him the floor.
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