<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have been in many shuls in EY where there is no set nusach. Instead, the<br>nusach goes by whomever is shaliach tzibbur.<div> </div><div>So you will often have the circumstance where on Shabbat shacharit<br>is done in one nusach and Mussaf is done in the other.</div><div> </div><div>...the appropriateness (or lack thereof) of having a shul with no set<br>nusach</div><div><br></div><div>As a chazzan for many years, let me try to respond:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">The Talmud Yerushalmi Eruvin at the end of the third perek states: . . . “do not change from the custom of your forefathers…” This text is cited by the Mogen Avraham Orach Chaim 68,1 in reference to t’fila meaning not to change one’s own nusach of t’fila, whether Ashkenaz or S’fard.<span> </span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Technically speaking, prayer modes constitute nusach hatefillah. They are very important since the nusach identifies whether it is Shabbos, Regel or Yomim Noraim. Shacharis IS different from Musaf. There are definite divisions of melody depending on the holiday and whether it is Shacharis, Mincha or Maariv. Therefore, for instance, there is one nusach for borchu for a regular ma'ariv, another for Shabbos ma'ariv, another for regel ma'ariv, another for yomim noraim ma'ariv, and another for Shabbos shacharis. As there are those illiterate in Ivri, there are those who are illiterate in nusach. One could be a musmach and still be unaware of proper nusach. I've heard many a yodea sefer who used the same nusach for everything. </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I am very much against chazzanim who repeat words and who take 15 minutes for birkat hachodesh. It was related to me that a chazzan took over 30 minutes chanting Hin'ni. It almost sounds like an oxymoron.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Kol tuv.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>