Torah reading

Torah reading is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the scroll (or scrolls) from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillations (tropes), and then returning the scroll(s) to the Torah Ark.

This practice is also commonly called 'leyening, a loanword from Yiddish: לייענען, romanized: leyenen, lit. 'to read, to read out loud'. It is also spelt lain, leyn, layn, or otherwise, as the use of a standardized romanization of Yiddish in popular culture is irregular at best.