- Q. Subject: Birkas Kohanim - Omor Lahem (Bamidbar 6:23): Who should be the makre (reader)?
Dear Rabbi SHELITA, Please ask HaRav Shlomo Miller the following:
1. When the Sheliach Tzibur is NOT a Kohen, should he be the one exclusively pre-announcing the 15 Birkas Kohanim words (Yevarechecha....Shalom) for the Kohanim to repeat (as per SH"A OC 128:13) or can the Makre always be anyone else in the minyan (ibid Seif 18 "mipi hamakre")?
2. IF it indeed belongs Sheliach Tzibur and someone else chapped to be the Makre before the SHA"TZ, would he liable Asara Zehuvim for the part of the miztvah of "Omor Lahem" as in the case in the Gemera (when one snatched someone else's mitzvah of Kisui Hdam or Zimun)?I presume that while this already happening, it would not be appropriate for the SHA"TZ to also be Makre as 2 voices (trei koile) will add to the confusion between the makre and Kohanim.(This e-mail was sent from a contact form on Congregation Bais Dov Yosef (http://asktherabbi.ca/)).
A. Horav Dovid Pam Shlit’a and other Rabbonim agree that if the permission to do the above was granted by a recognized authority of the shul, it is permitted as other helpful minhagim and praying traditions are.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a.
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