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Locating your Aliyah in your Tikkun

Locating an Aliyah in a Tikkun or in the Torah Scroll is a two-step process:

• LOCATE the Column containing your Aliyah
• LOCATE the Beginning Text for your Aliyah within that Column

Reference Tables guide students.  Each Aliyah has a specific Address – the Column #, Line # - where it begins in the student’s Tikkun Korim. Each Aliyah also has Unique Characteristics, including: Beginning Text, Type of Space (Open, Closed, No Space) preceding it, and specific words preceding it.

Students use Anchor Columns, columns with distinctive formatting and text (such as the Column where a new Sefer begins) to go to a known Column #, and then roll (turn pages of) the Tikkun a designated number of pages in a designated direction – to get to the Column containing their Aliyah.

Students then use the Unique Characteristics of their Aliyah to locate it within its Column.

With a little bit of practice, this becomes an easily repeatable, quick, and joyous activity.