[Avodah] Musaf Amidah on Shabbath

[Ken Bloom]

On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 17:06 -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> 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.

My shul does that when we have a minyan but aren't synchronized enough
to do a full chazara (i.e. less than 6 people davened the lachash at the
same time). We do a heicha kedusha, then everyone except the shaliach
tzibbur finishes silently. The shaliach tzibbur goes silently through
shomeia tefillah, waits and continues out loud at retezi. The point is
so that we can still get birkat kohanim in even though we did a heicha
kedusha.

>    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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