[Avodah] Fighting To Be Chazan?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:43:47PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> However if someone is mevateir, without fighting, to someone with a
>> greater claim, preserves the peace (ie acts like a mensch), that also gets
>> "credit".
>
> He gets the credit of shalom, which is surely great, but he's still missing
> the credit for kaddish...

Ein lekha keli machziq berakhah ela shalom.

And that's the final word. (As least, Rebbe thought so.) <grin>

Notice the context the mishnah (Uqtzin 3:12) gives that quote from R'
Shimon ben Chalafta. It stands to complement R' Yehoshua ben Levi saying,
"HQBH will give as a heritage to each and every tzaddiq 310 olamos..."

So, it would seem that exchanging Qaddish for shalom is a good trade.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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