[Avodah] Correcting Baalei Kriah

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:17:31PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: Does your shul have formal guidelines for correcting baalei kriah?
: If yes, are they from a prior source? Are they consistently applied at
: all minyanim? By whom?

In an alternate reality, where I went into kelei qodesh instead of
Wall Street programming jobs, there is (would have been?) a movement
by now called Mevaqshei Tov veYosher, a/k/a Other-Focused Orthodoxy
(OFO).

The OFO flagship shul, Yishrei Leiv, hosts AishDas programming, of course,
and at this point in alternate time, has a number of ve'adei mussar,
shiurim in machashavah and workshops in tefillah.

And, in line with OFO ideology, the rule for who can correct the baal
qeri'ah is simple. The only people who can do so are (would be):
1- the gabbaim,
2- the rav, and
3- next week's baal qeri'ah <wry-grin>.

(Everyone else should go to the gabbaim quietly. Even at the expense of
an occasional repeated pasuq. But also gabbaim would need to know diqduq
and be able to field the simpler questions of which mistakes actually
require correction.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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