[Avodah] Chazarat ha-Shats

[David E Cohen]

R' Marty Bluke asked:
> RYBS also held that on Rosh Hashan you have to hear every word of the
> shatz to be yotze with the tekios on the seder haberachos, again how does
> this fit in with going to wash the hands of the cohanim (RYBS was a Levi
> as well)?


This Rosh ha-Shanah, I davened in the shul of R' Chaim Soloveichik in Ramat
Beit Shemesh.  He announced that due to the aforementioned reason, as per
the minhag of his father (R' Aharon Soloveichik zt"l), the kohanim and
leviyim should not go out for washing until after Shofarot.  The chazzan
sang a prolonged niggun for "Hayom harat `olam" to allow time for this.

--D.C.