I daven netz me’hahar, which, in my location (Beit Shemesh) is currently 6:22. My wife started a job which requires me to leave shul around 6:45am in order to get home before she leaves for work, so that I can be with the kids. As a result, I am currently missing Torah reading and the last part of davening after Shmoneh Esrey. Also, I am not getting back to any other shul (later) for the Torah reading because it disrupts my learning seder and work schedule. (Also, my learning in general is somewhat limited as I work all day.) There is another local minyan which davens at 5:45am every day – even when netz is later. (I somewhat dislike this option as I am told that they daven very fast.) The other alternative is davening an 8:15am minyan. What minyan should I be davening at? Many many thanks! Aaron Morgan
Answer:
If you are generally careful to daven at hanetz hachamah every day, it follows that even if there was no minyan at all for hanetz, you would daven alone rather than daven later, as the Mishnah Berurah rules (Biur Halachah 58 s.v. umitvzah; 90:31; see also Ttitz Eliezer 14:5).
This is all the more true in the case of the question, where you have a minyan for davening, but cannot stay until the end.
Therefore the better option is to keep davening with your minyan (at hanetz hachamah), even though this means returning home early.
You should make up the parts of davening you missed later, but you don’t have to go back to shul for keriyas ha-Torah.
Best wishes.
