Maftir to Someone Who Has Difficulty Reading

Giving Maftir to Someone Who Isn’t Proficient in Reading

The person called up to the Torah for the aliyah of maftir should be one who can read the words of the haftorah clearly in Lashon Hakodesh (Hebrew) with the proper trop (tune). This applies even in a shul where everyone reads the haftorah, if they do so silently while the maftir (the person reading the haftorah) reads it out loud—which is the prevailing custom, including the Chabad custom. There is room for some leniency in a shul where the custom is that everyone reads the haftorah out loud, and the maftir’s reading is not heard (a custom which is questioned by a number of poskim); this leniency applies only to an individual who is not familiar with the trop, but not to one who isn’t capable of reading the words properly. Whereas there is some room for leniency to have the person receiving the aliyah of maftir recite only the brachos on the Torah, and have someone else make the brachos of the haftorah and read the haftorah in his stead, it should not be done l’chatchilah—it’s not the preferred standard. Some poskim imply that even if the person receiving the aliyah says the brachos of the haftorah, and someone else recites the haftorah, as is commonly practiced in some shules ,it should not be done l’chatchilah, unless the individual who received the aliyah is capable of reciting it properly in a undertone along with the reader.  #315?

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Practical Halacha: One minute a day. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, shlita, Mara D'asra and member of the Badatz of Crown Heights.