- Q. See question above. If one is reading the Shema should he wait to listen to the blowing when he is at the end of a parsha (chapter) of the Shema?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that since the blowing of the shofar during Elul is only a minhag (tradition), one may just stop for the fraction of a minute, if that is what the blowing takes.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a