[Avodah] saying kaddish together

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:38:21PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
> Several people in my shul (including myself) are having an argument
> with our rabbi.  Our rabbi is pushing allowing everyone to say
> kaddish in their own nusach and to wait for the longest version. The
> rest of us insist that everyone should at least be encouraged to use
> the nusach of the shul (sefard-chassidic) though it should not lead
> to fights.
> 
> I know of many poskim including RMF that insist that everyone should
> say the kaddish in unison and the same nusach. Does anyone know of
> any teshuvot that lechatchila allow a variety of nuschahim to be
> said for kaddish?

I think you might start from Yalkut Yosef Siman 55, Halacha 20 who
says that Sepharadim should say nusach edot hamizrach, even in an
Ashkenazi shul, even along with others who may be saying nusach
Ashkenaz. (They may shorten Yehe Shlama Raba to stay synchronized, but
may not omit v'yatzmach purkahne v'kareiv mishechei. Presumably such
an arrangement would allow them to stay perfectly synchronized with a
Nusach Sephard minyan.) The footnotes there (which I don't have access
to right now) should provide support for this position, and suggest
other sources of interest on this question.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/