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When there is no Levi, why do we call up the SAME Kohen “bimkom Levi” - “in place of a Levi.”
The Torah.org halakha class says,
If a kohen is present in the synagogue, he must be called to receive the first aliyah. After the Kohen, a Levi is called. If a Levi
is not present, the same ...
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how to call up a kohen/levi as acharon
Shulachan Aruch (OC 135:10) holds, and Rama (there) seems to also hold, that if a kohen (or levi, m.m.) is called as acharon then the gabai should say "af al pi shehu kohen". The purpose of this is to ...
