[Avodah] Keil melech neeman

[Simon Montagu]

On 12/21/06, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> the Moroccan minhag is for the Chazan to repeat "Hashem
> E-lokeikhem" and the qahal answers "Emes". This avoids anyone going from Shema
> to the berakhah and then back to Shema again. No hefseiq.

In my experience of Moroccan and other Sephardic minhag it's the other
way around: after the Hhazan finishes Shema` with "Hashem E lokeichem"
the qahal answers "Emet", and then the Hhazan repeats "Hashem E
lokeichem Emet" and continues "veyatziv venachon..." or "ve'emuna kol
zot..."