Standing During Chazoras Hashatz

Should We Stand during Chazaras Hashatz?

 

There is a machlokes haposkim, a disagreement amongst prominent halachic authorities, whether the congregants are required to stand during chazaras hashatz, the chazan’s repetition of the amidah. During the individual, silent, amidah, we are required to stand (except in extenuating circumstances that allow one to sit). Some poskim maintain that we should stand during the chazan’s repetition of the amidah as well. However, even according to the stringent opinion, it is a chumrah be’alma, merely an optional stringency or a minhag, the custom of some, but not a requirement. The common custom is that we sit; in fact, many Gedolei Yisroel, great sages of all time, would sit during chazaras hashatz. In conclusion, it is in accordance with halachah to sit throughout chazaras hashatz (with the exception of Kedushah and Modim which should be recited while standing), and certainly for one who finds it difficult to stand. #261?1 

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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.