I recently started saying kaddish in the last month or so. Since I’m a ba’al kriah by trade, I am accustomed to saying things in a slow, precise manner, and not rushing through it. However, the other gentleman in our shul who says kaddish often says it much faster than I do. I tried to keep up with him but many times was not successful. What’s worse, he could not hear me from where I was across the shul.
The rav asked me and the other gentleman to move to the bimah when kaddish is said. I wasn’t really comfortable with that idea, but eventually we hit upon a compromise — I move to where the other gentleman davens at kaddish time and say it next to him. As it turns out, he told he that he preferred to slow down as well, and only said it quickly out of perceived pressure (real or imagined) from the other mispallelim to go quickly.
The Wolf