[Avodah] Early morning minyan

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re:  R'JR's question <<Why is the general (as I understand 
it) custom to
switch shlichei tzibbur (e.g. more than one avel) before 
yishtabach
rather than right after?>>

As yishtabach is the b'rakha ending of pesukei d'zimra it 
sounds more correct to switch afterward.   However, the old 
minhag, and minhag of many to this day, is that there  is no 
standing chazan for pesukei d'zimra.  The chazan goes to the 
teiva before yishtabach so the kahal can answer Amen at the 
end of pesukei d'zimra.

Once when I was an avel and another avel also wanted to say 
a kaddish during the davening, to many peoples' surprise, I 
switched after the kaddish before bar'khu. So I had that 
kaddish while he had the ones after sh'moneh esrei.

And that reminds me of reading about the Ben-Ish-Hai Baghdad 
custom that the chazan would stop while an avel said the 
kaddish after which the chazan continued.  I suppose that, 
for Baghdad, I should have written hazan rather than chazan.


David