Q. Last Shabbos due to the fact that many of our attendants to shul are on vacation, the temporary Gabay mistakenly called for Hagba’ah and Gelilah (raising and dressing the Sefer Torah, done at the end of the reading) before the one called for the reading of Maftir had the opportunity to actually read the Torah.
Obviously, the Sefer Torah had to be placed again on the Bimah, untied and uncovered to have the Maftir portion,read again. Then Hagba’ah and Gelilah had to be repeated. In this most unusual case do the same people who erroneously performed the first lifting also have to repeat and do the second or can others be honored now?
A. Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a maintains that others can be called for the second Hagba’ah and Gelilah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.