[Avodah] kaddish kashes

[Akiva]

From: mkopinsky at gmail.com

>>A side question:  Are the halachos of kadima in kadish actually me'akeiv,
as in, does a shul really *need* to follow them?  It seems that many of
them were kind of arbitrary, to have some kind of system to stop the
fighting in shul.  (Or is that just me being an am ha'aretz and trying to
talk about something I know nothing about?)<<

I recall reading once in one of RHS books on RYBS (could be pninei harav, perhaps someone could check up) a story with the Shaagas Arye where he was asked who has kadima for kadish in a certain case. After replying, it was pointed out to him that this was not in compliance with the MA's list of rules. So he said "and where do you think the MA got it from?"
The list, like many psakim, is based on common sense without any written source. Sometimes it makes more sense to do it differently.

Akiva