[Avodah] Avodah Digest, Vol 26, Issue 19: Skipping ya'alhe veyavo

[Shlomo Pick]

>Can one purposely skip Ya'aleh Veyavo at Ma'ariv on Rosh Chodesh, in order
to catch the final Borchu.
>Relevant to those who miss the first Borchu, and it's the last Maariv
available.

See ishei yisrael by R. AY Pheifer who twice discusses saying shalom rav
instead of sim shalom (p. 234, fn 205; p.341, fn 25 in the name of the
chazon ish not to change the regular nusach tefila from sim shalom to shalov
rav to shorten the tefilah to get to kedusha).
More pertinent to the issue of ya'ale veyavo on night of rosh chodesh is his
note on p. 566, (chapter 48, paragraph 8, that one should NOT skip al
hanissim in order to get to kedusha with the zibbur.  I would say it's the
same with ya'aleh veyavo which is not me'akev like al hanissim but was
nitkan as part of the nusach tefilah and should be said lechatchila.  When
the chazzan or whoever says borchu, the latecomer should stop and listen to
the chazzan or whoever says it and to his answer of baruch hashem
hamevorach.
This would be a good place to note to the chazzanim that they should say the
Kaddosh kadosh, baruch kevod, and preferably yimloch hashem, as well as
yehei shmei rabba of their kaddeishim, and the baruch hashem hamevorach of
barchu aloud after the congregation (or louder than the congregation with
them) to be motzi all those people who have not finished shmone esrei and
stop to hear the keddusha, kadish or borchu and want to be yotzei these
tefillot bezibbur.  The chazzan does no service (and is almost useless) if
they can't be motzi the people who are most in need for these things, and
nowadays it is mostly those people still caught in their shmone esrei.
Anyone who can influence the chazzanim and shlichei zibbur to raise their
voices will be mezakeh the zibbur for real tefilla bezibbur and be zoche to
a reward corresponding to all those kiyyum mizvot that will result.
A Gutten Chodesh,
Shlomo Pick