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<font size=3>At 12:05 PM 8/24/2011, R. Zev Sero wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 23/08/2011 4:49 PM, Prof.
Levine wrote:<br>
> There is a hierarchy in halacha regarding who gets
precedence.<br><br>
First of all, I've seen such hierarchies for aliyos and for kaddish,<br>
not for the amud. Second, if there's only one minyan, then you
have<br>
no choice, and someone has to take precedence. But whoever misses
out<br>
is going to be hurt. Or do you expect them to be happy that
their<br>
parent or relative or whoever will miss out on the zechus just
because<br>
someone else showed up with a greater claim? "Oh, that's OK,
tatty<br>
didn't really need my davening anyway, you go ahead, I'm sure your<br>
father needs it much more than mine does...." However you cut
it,<br>
surely you see that this is not a recipe for shalom and goodwill.<br>
So if there are enough people, why *not* split up? You're
worried<br>
about "berov am"? You're constantly quoting R Yisroel
Salanter; what<br>
would he say about the relative values of an impressively large
minyan<br>
davening together versus someone upset and angry that he missed out
on<br>
the amud?</font></blockquote><br>
WADR, I have to point out that much of what you have written above does
not see to be correct. Please see
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/mourning_kaddish_amud.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/mourning_kaddish_amud.pdf</a>
which are some pages from Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Goldberg's Mourning
in Halacha.<br><br>
Note page 375 regarding precedence in leading the davening. <br><br>
<font size=3>Note footnote 70 on page 367 in particular regarding only
one person saying kaddish. <br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">> In addition,
according to the din, which most places do not follow,<br>
> only one person is supposed to say kaddish at a time.<br><br>
There is no such halacha.</font></blockquote><br>
While there may be "no such halacha," this is an ancient
custom. Again see<br><br>
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/mourning_kaddish_amud.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/areivim/mourning_kaddish_amud.pdf</a>
<br><br>
as well as
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/4yceq9x" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/4yceq9x<br><br>
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<font size=3>Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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