[Avodah] Kaddish Yasom

[Daniel Israel]

Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
> 1. i believe it is a minhag in chabad to have maftir the whole year [ 
> one person left the early minyan where i daven shabbos because we 
> couldnt give him all the maftirs]

AFAIK everyone agrees with this in theory, however, since a person with 
a yarzheit in the coming week is generally given precedence, it doesn't 
usually happen.  I'm not sure why there would be fewer yarzheits in 
Chabad...

I would note that when I was an avel I was living in Tucson, where it 
was not always possible to get a minyan every day, although we usually 
did get one.  One consolation, however, was that I was able to get 
maftir about 90% of the time.

-- 
Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu