When there is someone who can read the cantillation and vowelization from a chumash, how should the Torah reading be conducted in a community without a skilled reader?
Synopsis
The Mishnah Berurah and Aruch HaShulchan both describe the same practical procedure: a prompter reads from a chumash quietly into the Torah reader's ear, while the Torah reader reads aloud from the Sefer Torah.
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