- Q. OUR FIRST Question sent by Horav Dovid Bartfeld Shlit’a to Hagaon Horav Berkovits Shlit’a.
Iv’e noticed that many people that Daven for the Amud, when they finish Chazoras Hashat”z they take 3 steps back.
I thought the Shulchan Aruch says we don’t do that. Iv’e heard people say that the 3 steps we take by Kadish shalem after Uva Letzion are the 3 steps for the end of chazoras Hashat”z so therefore on a monday and thursday when there is laining and the chazan has to walk beforehand, then he should take 3 steps after Chazaras Hashat”z. Is that true?
Answer:
Harav Berkovits said that although indeed the 3 steps that we take at the end of Kaddish are for the Chazoras Hashat”z, but they count even on a leining day when the chazan will walk around before kaddish.
He added an ever bigger chiddush, there are some shuls that when there are two chiyuvim they will split the davening with the second chazan taking over by Ashrei. In that situation one may say that the original chazan should take 3 steps back after chazaras hashat’z because he won’t be saying kaddish shaleim, nevertheless Harav Berkovits feels that the kaddish being said by the second person is enough and he would still not need to take 3 steps back!
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs and Horav Dovid Bartfeld quoting Horav Berkovits Shlit’a .
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