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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>R’ Joel Rich:</span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'>---------------- <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My shul does not, except that the previous (now deceased Rav) was very against it, quoting the Tur about embarrassing the Baal Korei. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That said, let me add to R’ JR’s questions: Does your shul have any guidelines for correcting the Korei of the Haftorah? A Rav once pointed out to me that there is no mekor for correcting the one leining the haftorah; in his shul, he did not correct on the Haftorah, even the kind of mistake that he would have corrected during the Krias Hatorah. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>KT,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MYG<o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>