Re: Standing for Kaddish was Re: Tefillin on Chol Hamoed
- From: moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:44:45 +0000 (UTC)
Tim Meushaw <meushaw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Micha Berger <micha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I was a kid, in the shtiebl my father frequented, the local YI,
and my grandfather's shul in Tel Aviv, the norm was that only those
saying the Qaddish made a point of standing, unless one was about to
stand for the prayer after it anyway.
Cindy, this is the behavior I've noticed in our Sephardi minyan as well.
One of your emails indicated it seemed like the custom was to always
sit, whereas it's really more "do what you've been doing."
The Qitzur Shulchan Arukh 15:6 gives two opinions. The first is as
above. The second is that one must stand, bringing a proof from King
Eglon of Moav (Judges 3:20), who stood to hear the word of G-d from
Eihu. Then the QSA advises one be stringent. See a translation at
<http://www.geocities.com/yona_n.geo/kizzur/kizzur15.html#6>.
The QSA tends to side with stringency as the norm, does it not? I was
warned previously that it'd be good to read it, but not to take it as
100% paskening as it's sometimes too strict.
The Mishnah Berurah 56:8 records standing as a practice of the Ari --
which also seems to imply "good idea, but not normatively considered
required."
The theory usually cited is one should stand for Qaddish for the
same reason that it requires a minyan. It's a declaration of G-d's
sanctity. But then, the same could be said of the "Barekhu" before each
aliyah at the Torah, and few stand then. R' Teitz (Elizabeth, NJ) wrote
to Avodah this is because in reality, this would only require the one
saying Qaddish to stand.
I've wondered about not standing for "Barekhu" before aliyot. Artscroll
says, and which I agreed seemed to make sense on my own anyway, to not
only stand, but bow during the response, as one would for "Barukh" before
the b'rakhot for the shema (and at the end of davening when appropriate).
Why is there a distinction made between the different times? I'd learned
that the first one was a call to prayer, but isn't doing it before an
aliyah similiar? And yet, I've only ever noticed maybe one or two other
people doing it, in a room full of sitters. (I've actually been meaning
to ask this question for about a month now but never got around to it)
Don't ask me. I've been _standing_ for the layning oh these 48 years
or so. So naturally, I get up when the barchu is said and don't sit
down till the aliyah is over.
Moshe Schorr
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The home and family are the center of Judaism, *not* the synagogue.
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