[Avodah] Aveil as Sha"tz on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:23:51PM -0500, Micha Berger wrote:
: I take your question to mean: Is the heter for an aveil who is a
: professional chazan based on it being a paid-for position, or on his
: competency?

The AhS YD 341:16 allows a sha"tz who is onein to serve as chazan on
Shabbos if there is no one else available "o inash be'alma". His reason
why is that while there is no aninus on Shabbos, "bedavar she'eino
hekhreich" one should certainly avoid doing it.

And Encyc Talmudit  "devarim shebetzin'ah", near the end, writes that if
he is the regular sha"tz, some write that it is mutar for him to take
the amud on Shabbos because his not doing so would be aveilus
befarhesia.
Fn 118 lists these sources:
    Gilyon Mahrasha 399, citing a maaseh with R' Tam and an aliyah
	laTorah
    Ibid 376 says even during shiv'ah
Earlier, we are told an aveil called up for an aliyah must take it
because it's befarhesia for him to decline, and fn 93 gives these
sources (assuming I chased all the "sham"s down to the right origins:
    Rosh Mo'eid Qatan 24a #28
    Tur OC 393
    SA 393:1

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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