[Avodah] Fighting To Be Chazan?

[Prof. Levine]

At 12:43 PM 8/24/2011, Joseph C. Kaplan wrote:
>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

This is not what I have seen in Brooklyn in some places.  True, there 
are people who are considerate of others and people do share. 
However, one fellow who was an avel for his mother a few years ago 
insisted that, because he was an only son, that he had to daven for 
the Amud all of the time and would not share the Amud.  The same 
thing happened when he lost his father about a year and half 
ago.  This attitude led to a number of unpleasant situations and 
almost to a fist fight at one time!

YL
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