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The custom of ikuv kriya (delaying the reading of the Torah) developed among Jewish communities in the Diaspora when there were prolonged periods of want, distress and atrophy. Its meaning: To prevent desecration of God's name, or to protest an outrageous injustice that everyone was ignoring, it was permitted to stop reading the Torah (the pinnacle of holy worship) and to shout out against the injustice and...
