Q. I teach a daily shiur in our shul after davening to a group of about ten people. There is a second minyan in an adjoining room that davens at that time. On some occasions they don’t have someone that can read the Torah for them and they call me to read when the Sefer Torah is already on the bima. Do I have to stop my shiur and go read the Torah for them?
A. This is indeed a very difficult question to decide which is indeed the most important mitzva. On one side we have the teaching of Torah to the many. While on the other side we have a Sefer Torah on the Bima waiting to be read, and in a way placed in a disrespectful neglected position.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that there is an easy way out of the dilemma, and that is to get the best Torah reader available and have someone next to him read quietly and to his ears only from a Chumash that he can then repeat, while reading from the Torah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a
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