[Avodah] Musaf Amidah on Shabbath

[Zev Sero]

On 23/12/2010 4:18 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:41:31AM +1100, David J Havin wrote:
> : In the early part of last century, there were some synagogues in England and
> : Australia in which the Musaf Amidah was recited quietly but with no
> : repetition, apparently based on a ruling of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler.  I do
> : not know if there was a similar practice in the USA.  Is there any halachic
> : basis to this?

> See the Rambam's shu"t #256. The Rambam noticed that people ignored
> chazaras hashatz, and it became a time for talking, stepping out for
> a minute, and other loss of qedushah (and berakhos levatalah for the
> chazan), so he abolished silent Mussaf.

Which is the opposite of the practise under discussion here.

> And the only qehillos I know of who do this ad hayom hazeh are (logically
> enough) Teimani.

Spanish-Portuguese do a sort of combination.  The kahal starts out
together with the chazan, then after kedusha the chazan says the middle
bracha silently and waits just before its end until everyone finishes,
and then he picks up aloud.   I've also seen this in some Moroccan
minyanim.   I've also seen Moroccan minyanim omit duchening in musaf
in order to save time.


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