[Avodah] Aveil as Sha"tz on Shabbos

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

I regret using "Carlebach". It set off an unintended reaction

I probably could have said, the local "Belzer shtibble" has only one
amateur Shatz who knows their traditional niggunim and R"L he became
an aveil. And that they only gather for shacharis about once a month,
otherwise they daven only Qabbalas Shabbos.

I cannot tell you how much "noise" the term Carlebach generated.

I know that my old yekkisher shul was VERY uncomfortable with a shatz
who did not know the Yekke Nusash. I won't go into the entire history
but even a guest shatz was expected to have a sensibility of the peculiar
minhaggim etc.

While We WERE tolerant of non-Yekke Lainers on occasion, but not so much
so for baalei t'fillah

I would assume that certain other groups have a similarly "canned" nusach.

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The good news is that we recruited 2 baalei t'filah for Shabbos so the
aveil only davened mincha erev Shabbos
The ba'al shacharis was a newbie and so he only knew the nusach so-so
but was quite OK anyway. The ba'al musaph was a bit more knowledgable.

So B"H it all worked out OK.

KT
RRW
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