Is last least?
It is customary when calling up the last
speaker at a simcha or function to say "אחרון אחרון
חביב".
It is also customary to honour special
people with ברכה אחריתא.
It's done so, as to suggest that
this כיבוד is a חשובע כיבוד
Is last, more of a כיבוד than the ones before?
The phrase אחרון אחרון חביב comes from Rashi in Parshas וישלח .
Yakov placed his family to stand in front
of Eisav , in the order of his love for them. Hence,
first the Shfochos & their children then Leah &
her children and אחרון אחרון חביב Rochel & Yosef. ( distanced
farthest from
Eisav) They were placed there for greater protection and has nothing
to do with כבוד.
It is very likely that the last כיבוד
is the least of the כיבודים and the phrase is used, when calling up
the last one, just to appease him for getting the last (least) כיבוד.
The Gemoro in Gittin 60a & Shulchan
Aruch O.Ch. 136 lists whom to call up to the Torah after Kohen & Levi. The
Gemoro says you start with the most חשובע person (Talmid Chacham& Parnes )
until you get to the last two עליות
(שישי* & שביעי) where everyone can be עולה.
According to the Gemoro and
Shulchan Aruch , last עליות
are the least כיבוד.
The Mishna Verurah (136
sk5) writes in the name of the Achronim ,
Today the Minhag Is for
the Godol Hatzibur (The Rov etc.) to be mesayem
the
sidrah (takes Achron.)
There might be two reasons for this
practice. a) אין המצוה
נקראת אלא על מי שגומרה
b) The Rabonim who are עולה אחרון are
practicing humility. (Praven Anivus)
For this reason שישי became a חשובע עליה.
Being the Gemoro says that
From שישי and on everyone may be עולה,
there were Rabonim who were humble
and asked to be called up for שישי .
Eventually, it became the חשובע עליה to
be given to Rabonim.
*The Zohar disagrees with the Bavli and considers Shishi as a Chashuva
Aliya.
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