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Priority for Maftir: Bar Mitzvah or Yahrzeit?

Question

A man who has a yahrzeit next week and a boy who will also become bar mitzvah next week, and both pray in the same synagogue, who takes precedence for Maftir? 

And what is the Halacha if the bar mitzvah boy and his father are not regular members of the synagogue? 

Answer

Shalom and blessings 

The regular member of the synagogue takes precedence. 

Answered 2 July 2025 How answers are reviewed
Rabbi Israel Cohen
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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