cherrybim, that’s not what I said. I said that if the chazar fresser, to use your words, is merutze l’hehal, he is kasher to serve as the shaliach tzibur. This used to be a big issue. Schuls would engage chazzanim who becuase of their fame and ability increased ticket sales over the holidays, the rabbis found objectionable, but there was nothing to do about it. I was hired once by a schul and a small group of members objected as I was, at the time, under thirty years old and unmarried. The rabbi paskened that since the majority of the congregation wants me to daven. . . I don’t have the exact cites for either here, but both being it down in Hilchot Rosh Hashana.
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