Q. Should the Baal Koreh (reader of the Torah) on this Shabbat Shirah read the Shirah with much joy and Simcha?
A. Zohar (B’shalach and Terumah) and Midrash, quoted by many Poiskim, exalt the ones who recite Shiras Hayam with great joy, with detailed care, and with all its cantilliations are considered as if they experienced themselves the Exodus of Mitzraim and Hashem saves them and forgives all their sins. (Pri Chodosh, Mishna Berura 53, et. al.)
Because of the inherent requirement to recite the Shira with happiness, some Poiskim even advise to refrain from saying it in a mourner’s house or on the 9 of Av (Tur O. H. 559, Bais Yosef and Darchei Moshe ibid.).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that indeed it should be read by the Baal Koreh this Shabbos with the most and utmost joy and Simcha.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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