- Q. Hon. Rov Shlit’a.
Since as the Rov knows, we have a significant group of elderly people in our shul for Shabbat and it is B”H increasing.
Some can only come after we already started or even ended the Torah reading and join us for Musaf and Kiddush. (We are trying if possible to start a second minyan). However, some come only for Mincha and Maariv and we would like to have all of them hear the added parshios. Can we then by the Torah reading of Shabbat Mincha and before Maariv read by the four added Parshiot of these days?
A. On question 4880 we wrote:
Q. An elderly and ill individual that only goes these days to shul for Mincha on Shabbos being taken on a wheelchair. This next Shabbos is Parshas Shekalim, since he will not be there in the morning when that parsha is read, can it be read for him especially by Mincha, at it is close to Teruma and no second sefer in needed, he would not hear it otherwise?
A. On question 4119 we wrote: Birkei Yosef (685: 3) rules that if Parshas Shekolim was not read during Shabbos morning it should not be read after Musaf for individuals that did not heard it before. The reason given is that it is unlike Parshas Zachor that constitutes a personal obligation for all.
However, Shekalim is similar to the reading of the Shabbos parsha itself and requires a proper Minyan. See similar ruling in Piskei Teshuvos (685).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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