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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 423
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<b>סדר קריאת התורה בר"ח. ובו ד סעיפים:</b><br>אומר קדיש תתקבל וכו' ומוציאין ס"ת וקורים בו ד' אין פוחתין מהם ואין מוסיפין עליהם ואין מפטירין בנביא:
The order for reading the Torah on Rosh Ḥodesh, with four clauses: One says the full Kaddish etc, and we bring out the Torah scroll, and four read from it — no fewer than that and no more than that, and nobody does a concluding reading from the prophets.
וקורא הכהן ג' פסוקים שהם וידבר צו ואמרת ולוי חוזר וקורא ואמרת וקורא את הכבש אחד ועשירי' האיפה וישראל קורא עולת תמיד עד ובראשי חדשיכם ורביעי קורא ובראשי חדשיכם עד סוף:
The kohen reads three verses, which are "And he said," "Command," and "And say" (Numbers 28:1-3). The levite returns to reading "And say," and then reads "The first sheep" and "A tenth of an ephah" (Numbers 28:3-5). The Israelite reads from "The regular offering" up to "And on your new moons" (Numbers 28:6-10). And the fourth reads from "And on your new moons" to the end (Numbers 28:11-15).
אומר קדיש ואשרי ובא לציון ואין אומרי' יענך ה' ביו' צרה ומחזיר ספר תורה למקומו ועומדים להתפלל תפלת מוסף ומחזיר ש"ץ התפל' ואומר כתר וכשמגיע למלא כל הארץ כבודו אומר לעומתם משבחי' כמו בקדושת שחרי' ואחר שסיים חזרת התפלה אומר קדיש ואומר מזמור ברכי נפשי את ה':
And then one says Kaddish, and Ashrei, and U-Va l-Tsiyon, but one does not say Psalm 20. And one returns the Torah scroll to its place, and they stand to pray the Musaf prayer, and the precentor does the repetition of prayer, and says "Keter" to introduce the kedusha, but when he gets to "the whole earth is full of His glory" he says "to each other they praise" as in the kedusha for shaḥarit. And after one finishes the repetition of prayer, one says Kaddish and says Psalm 104, "Bless the LORD, my soul."
נוהגי' לחלוץ תפילין כשרוצי' להתפלל מוסף:
There are those who customarily remove tefillin when they want to pray Musaf.
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