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S. F.
As someone who has been leining on a regular basis since my bar mitzvah some 50 years ago, I thoroughly enjoyed your profile of the six veteran baalei kriah and appreciated your noting that is the correct term, rather than the far more popular baal korei. (Dikduk aficionados will tell you the same is true for the person who blows shofar on Rosh Hashanah — the term is “tokeia” or “baal tekiah,” not “baal tokeia.”)
Allow me to share two or three of my own special experiences over the years. Once a veteran baal kriah has leined every parshah multiple times, there are limited opportunities for new leining experiences and challenges. In 2017, Adam Rosen, a veteran baal kriah in Florida, realized that most regular baalei kriah don’t necessarily get to lein every single parshah every year due to bar mitzvahs, people who lein certain parshiyos every year, etc. So, he set out to do “54 in 1” — all the parshios and megillos in one calendar year. (The story of his experience can be found online.)
Living as I do in a neighborhood blessed with excellent baalei kriah who can lein every parshah every week, and having struggled through a long stretch of time with voice issues, I thought I would never merit the opportunity to accomplish that. But Hashem runs the world.
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