[Avodah] a troubling halacha

[Prof. Levine]

At 06:13 PM 11/9/2008, you wrote:

>I understand that in communities where only one person says kaddish, 
>an avel for a parent has higher priority than an avel for other 
>relatives. But you seem to be saying that in some communities, an 
>avel for other relatives does not say kaddish at all, unless there 
>are no sons to say it.
>
>Is that so? I'm curious which communities are that way.
>
>Akiva Miller

Why should one say for a sister or a brother, if they leave behind 
sons who are over Bar Mitzvah who are saying kaddish for them? The 
halacha is, as I understand it, that only one person is supposed to 
say kaddish at a given time. (Today this has changed in many places 
in order to avoid fights over who gets to say which kaddish.) From 
here you see that only one person saying kaddish is what is to be 
done. Why have others say kaddish?

YL
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