Reply To: Raising the Pinky

I have never seen this done in shul or even heard of it until now. Is that something that the olam is supposedly noheig to do at Hagbah or the person who is picking up the Sefer? If the latter, maybe the person doing hagbah had a sore pinky, and didn’t want to put the stress of lifting on that part of his hand… (I am totally ignorant about this, so bear with me, please).