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<DIV>"Afterwards, Reb Yisroel was asked why he did this. After all, he was
<BR>entitled al pi din to daven for the Amud and to say kaddish. He <BR>replied,
"I thought it was a bigger zechus for my father not to pain <BR>this fellow and
let him daven and say kaddish."<BR><BR>Too bad people do not have this attitude,
but instead fight for the <BR>Amud and insist on saying kaddish in mass."</DIV>
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<DIV>Who says they don't. In my shul that is exactly the attitude they
have. In the two years I was in aveilut, I did not see a single instance
of a disagreement over the amud (the minhag in my shul is not to limit
the saying of kaddish to one person so that was never an issue), and, in fact, I
heard RYS's advice quoted a number of times. On second thought,
that's not exactly accurate. There were some disagreements; i.e., "you
take the amud; no YOU take the amud."</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan</DIV></BODY></HTML>