[Avodah] Shul Practices

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:45:53PM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
: Since knowing how to lein, and especially knowing how to lein any
: given aliyah, is no longer an expected skill in most communities,
: it's no longer embarrassing that one doesn't know how, so if someone
: wants to do his own, why not?

Since when does logic have to do with emotions? Your line of reasoning
would work for robots, not people.

If everyone else is leining their own aliyah that day, someone who
can't may still be embarassed and decline taking an aliyah with the
ba'al qeri'ah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha