<div dir="ltr"><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><br></p><hr style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border-right:0px none;border-bottom:0px none;border-left:0px none;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:black;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">Is it appropriate to pick a Younger teenage boy as shatz – comment on a post  as to why to pick one:<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">But there are two countervailing concerns:</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">First, we need someone who can grow up comfortable taking the amud for when he<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">is a zaqein veragil [adult and fluent].</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">Second, we need teens to feel like they belong and are tied into the shul. Makes sure more of them grow up to be shomerei Torah uMitzvos, anavim, etc…</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">(I am not sure why you mention Chareidi shuls in particular. Sephardim go<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">further, and will put a qatan up for Pesuqei deZimra, Qabbalas Shabbos, and some<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">eidos — even Maariv.)</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">my response:</p><ol style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 25px 10px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 5px 10px;outline:none;list-style:outside decimal;border:0px none">I mentioned chareidi shuls because in other shuls, in my experience, the gabbai picks someone. In a number of chareidi shuls I’ve gone to, it’s whomever goes up.<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">2.Clearly there are counter-pressures. I suspect it has to do with how we view the role of the shatz. I would guess that most defendants in capital cases would prefer not to have a trainee representing them.</li></ol><div><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, serif">Bsorot tovot</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, serif">Joel Rich</font></div></div>