Question

Hello Rabbi, we have a youth minyan in the synagogue on the Sabbath, and the behavior of the participants is very, very degrading to the holiness of the place—especially the talking (and loudly) during the prayer and the Torah reading, and the extreme speed of the prayer leader and the Torah reader. So far they haven’t managed to solve the problem. But now a new rabbi has arrived, and he seems to be a Torah scholar, and when he saw the situation he was deeply shocked. As a result, he approached the administration and said that he would not continue like this unless they let him shorten the prayer service (to say the Amidah together without the repetition, shorten the “Mi Sheberakh” blessings, and even shorten the Torah reading to a third of its usual length), and also make it slower. He also plans to give a short, focused Torah thought before the reading, and of course there would be no talking during the prayers. It seems his intention is that if he simply tells everyone to be quiet, it won’t work. So he wants to shorten it to a briefer amount of time that people will be able to handle, and during that time they will pray with concentration and the prayer will be meaningful. But I wanted to know the Rabbi’s opinion on the matter. Is this permitted? Thank you.