- Q. In our morning minyan that serves mostly people that go to work intermediately after davening, and some are very rushed to do so. Now since we have the minhag to add during Elul the psalm of “Ledavid H’ Ori, before Alenu and we also have some avelim that are elderly and recite Kadish very slow.
The rushing attendants want, since they are workers rushing to go to work, to say Alenu first and as they usually do and will stay and leave after that Kadish, but they will not stay for the recitation of Ledavid H’ Ori, that they consider only to be a minhag and they can recite it on the way to work without saying kasddish after. Is that a correct thing to do? How important is really the Ledavid?
A. There are different minhagim indeed as to when to say Ledavid, yet the question is surprising, since the Shir Shel Yom (Psalm of the day) is also recited after Alenu, and a kadish is also said then.
Nitei Gavriel (3: 8) mentions that indeed some Poskim maintain that only one single Kaddish should be recited for the Shir Shel Yom and Ledavid, since we should not recite more than necessary Kadeishim as is. (similar to unnecessary blessings).
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Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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