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A Gabbai (Hebrew: גבאי) is a person who assists in the running of a synagogue and ensures that the needs are met, for example the Jewish prayer services run smoothly, or an assistant to a rabbi (particularly the secretary or personal assistant to a Hassidic Rebbe). A Gabbai's obligations might also include maintaining a Jewish cemetery. Hebrew redirects here. ... A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul; Ladino אסנוגה esnoga) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ... Jewish services are the prayers recited as part of observance of Judaism. ... Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... now. ...


In many synagogues the Gabbai is not a permanent job like the one described above but rather a role in the Torah service. The Gabbai stands next to the Torah reader holding a version of the text with vowels and trope markings (which are not present in the actual Torah scroll) and follows along in order to correct the reader if he or she forgets something. The Jewish ritual of Torah reading (in Hebrew: קריאת התורה, Kriat HaTorah; Reading [of] the Torah) involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. ... A trope is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i. ... Sefer Torah (in Hebrew: Book [of] Torah) (plural: sifrei Torah) is a specially hand-written copy of the Torah or Pentateuch being the holiest book within Judaism and venerated by Jews. ...


The Gabbai is also responsible for calling congregants up to the Torah to make the traditional blessings before and after each reading.


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