[Avodah] Split Nusach

[Cantor Wolberg]

I have been in many shuls in EY where there is no set nusach. Instead,  
the
nusach goes by whomever is shaliach tzibbur.

So you will often have the circumstance where on Shabbat shacharit
is done in one nusach and Mussaf is done in the other.

...the appropriateness (or lack thereof) of having a shul with no set
nusach

As a chazzan for many years, let me try to respond:

The Talmud Yerushalmi Eruvin at the end of the third perek  
states: . . . “do not change from the custom of your forefathers…”  
This text is cited by the Mogen Avraham Orach Chaim 68,1 in reference  
to t’fila meaning not to change one’s own nusach of t’fila, whether  
Ashkenaz or S’fard.

Technically speaking, prayer modes constitute nusach hatefillah. They  
are very important since the nusach identifies whether it is Shabbos,  
Regel or Yomim Noraim. Shacharis IS different from Musaf. There are  
definite divisions of melody depending on the holiday and whether it  
is Shacharis, Mincha or Maariv. Therefore, for instance, there is one  
nusach for borchu for a regular ma'ariv, another for Shabbos ma'ariv,  
another for regel ma'ariv, another for yomim noraim ma'ariv, and  
another for Shabbos shacharis. As there are those illiterate in Ivri,  
there are those who are illiterate in nusach. One could be a musmach  
and still be unaware of proper nusach. I've heard many a yodea sefer  
who used the same nusach for everything.

I am very much against chazzanim who repeat words and who take 15  
minutes for birkat hachodesh. It was related to me that a chazzan took  
over 30 minutes chanting Hin'ni. It almost sounds like an oxymoron.

Kol tuv.
ri
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