[Avodah] Fighting To Be Chazan?

[Joseph C. Kaplan]

"Afterwards, Reb Yisroel was asked why he did this.  After all, he was 
entitled al pi din to daven for the Amud and to say kaddish. He 
replied, "I thought it was a bigger zechus for my father not to pain 
this fellow and let him daven and say kaddish."

Too bad people do not have this attitude, but instead fight for the 
Amud and insist on saying kaddish in mass."

Who says they don't. In my shul that is exactly the attitude they have.  In the two years I was in aveilut, I did not see a single instance of a disagreement over the amud (the minhag in my shul is not to limit the saying of kaddish to one person so that was never an issue), and, in fact, I heard RYS's advice quoted a number of times.  On second thought, that's not exactly accurate.  There were some disagreements; i.e., "you take the amud; no YOU take the amud."

Joseph Kaplan
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