The Talmud on Priority in Reading
Abaye said [that] we have a tradition [that if] there is no priest there [in the synagogue at the time of the Torah reading], the bundle is separated [i.e., a Levite is not shown precedence over Israelites]. And Abaye said [that] we have a tradition [that if] there is no Levite there [in the synagogue], a priest reads [in his place].
Translation adapted from the Noé Edition of the Koren Talmud Bavli.
Notes
Words in brackets appear in the original translation.
Credits
From Koren Talmud Bavli, Noé Edition, trans. Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2019). Accessed via the William Davidson digital edition, sefaria.org. Adapted with permission of Koren Publishers Ltd.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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