[Avodah] Early morning minyan

[Arie Folger]

RMB:
> My question was that we're switching shlichei tzibbur in the middle of
> that chativa.

Why would you need one shatz only for a whole chativa (except for
shemonei essrei, where the prohibition of the slightest hefsek would
make it impractical to change, though I have seen it be'et hatzorekh
(1st shatz suddenly felt ill).

In fact, despite the fact that we have mostly moved away from such
practices, in teh instance of the text said when setting out to return
a sefer Torah to teh heikhal, the chazan relies on the qahal and
tehqahal on the chazan, for teh chazan says yehallellu et shem
ha<Shem>..., and stops in the midst of a verse, which is picked up by
teh qahal. Both parties are motzi each other. This kind of responsive
reading was once very common, and still is in real Ashkenaz (Yekkishe)
and in Yemenite communities (that is how they reportedly say Hallel).

KT
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