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Note to the slow shliach tzibbur:

I’m not going to tell you what to do on a weekday when your fellow mispallelim are rushing to get back to their cell phones and their car keys.

But on Shabbos, take your time please! You”ll have at least one very grateful slow davener behind the mechitza who’s happy to be able to keep up without getting breathless and losing concentration. And if everyone else is upset they have to wait an extra few minutes for their herring and chulent, is that really tircha d’tzibura? How about the people forced to swallow half their consonants just to keep up with a speeding Sha”tz? Seems that involves some tircha too.

(Or do we want to say that a woman is not part of the tzibbur? And if so, does not the possibility exist that there may be a slow davener on the men’s side?)