[Avodah] Chazarta Hashas

[Daniel Israel]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:49:48 -0600 M Cohen <mcohen at touchlogic.com> 
wrote:
>I personally always thought that the heter was based on the svara 
>that if you can't concentrate on the Chazarta Hashas anyways, it's 
better 
>to learn than yoshiev batel.
>
>otoh, RMF's sevara of 'can't do since others may learn from you' 
>w/ indicate that even if you can't concentrate, yoshiev batel is 
preferable.

One could, in principle, satisfy both shitas by doing mental 
chazara.  I am assuming here that l'chatchila you should be 
listening with k'vannah, not thinking about other things.  
Although, from the fragment of RMF's t'shuva here it is possible he 
might hold that one could do mental chazara in any case if there is 
still a minyan answering amen.  (OTOH, if everyone held by such a 
psak, how would one determine whether there is a minyan with 
k'vanah on the chazaras haShats?!?)

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu