How to Have an Aliyah With COVID-19 Precautions 1. When it’s time for your aliyah, approach the rabbi’s side of the bimah. Give your Hebrew name to the gabbai. 2. Sanitize your hands. 3. Take the corner of your tallit and touch the indicated spot in the Torah (there will be a marker there). Do not kiss your tallit. 4. Hold the atzei hayim (the handles of the Torah) and say the blessing before the aliyah. ​ ​ 5. Move up near the ark. You should be 6 feet away from others on the bimah and, ideally, able to see the inside of the Torah scroll. The Torah reader will read the aliyah. 6. After the Torah reader finishes and moves away, return to the Torah scroll. Hold the atzei hayim and say the blessing after the aliyah. ​ ​ 7. Move to the page-turner’s side of the bimah for the duration of the next aliyah. You should be 6 feet away from others on the bimah (standing on the stairs works well). 8. When that aliyah is finished, you may return to your seat. Yasher koach! How to do Hagbah/Gelilah (Lift/Dress the Torah) With COVID-19 Precautions 1. When hagbah and gelilah are called, come up to the bimah. 2. Sanitize your hands. Hagbah Gelilah 3. Make sure that you allow your hands to fully dry! 4. Do hagbah normally (get the 3. Do gelilah normally (roll the scroll Torah part-way off the table, use closed, put on the belt, put on the cover, the table for leverage, bend your put the alef over both handles, put the knees, lift, turn and show the yad over the right handle). For safety, congregation the scroll, sit on the the gabbaim will not be able to help you page turner’s side of the bimah). as much as they normally would. 5. Put the Torah in the stand on the page turner’s side of the bimah. 6. Return to your seat. Yasher 4. Return to your seat. Yasher koach! koach! .