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Post Sun, Mar 16 2014, 11:49 pm
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 5:26 pm
Is this for real or speeded up?
And did these people really feel that they were yotzei?
And do you think they were?
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 5:29 pm
Wow and I thought the 16 minutes I heard it in was fast! I guess if they understand each word and hear it they are yotzi. If its possible to understand....
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 6:35 pm
The video skipped parts of the kriah in the middle.

And no, most people are probably not yotzei with that.
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 7:10 pm
I wouldn't consider them Yotzei.
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 8:47 pm
I showed this to a family member.

They were not Yotzei because:

He was reading so fast that he probably did not look at every single word, meaning he must have read the first words at the beginning of each line by heart in order to maintain the speed.

The same holds true with Kriyas Hatorah. If someone is laining by heart and not looking inside at each and every word then you are not Yotzei. This is why many shuls don't allow Bar Mitzvah boys to lain, because in their nervousness they may lain by heart a few words.
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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 9:04 pm
Here is a picture of what Megillat Ester looks inside. Notice how there are gaps between the end of one Perek to the beginning of another.

Even the best lainers must pause slightly for their eyes to catch up.

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Post Mon, Mar 17 2014, 9:15 pm
I can't speak for anyone else but I myself would not have been yotze with that. I can't even follow visually that fast, let alone hear that fast. Even if the reader did in fact pronounce every word without swallowing any consonants--a la the verbal acrobatics of "the very model of a modern major-general"--I take leave to doubt very much that he paused to avoid running together consecutive words like "lach Esther" and "haman niv'at".

This may qualify for an entry in Guinness, but unless the building was on fire-- in which case I believe pikuach nefesh would take priority and they could anyway interrupt the reading to evacuate rather than race to complete the reading before leaving the premises--what's the rush?
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