Seemingly, if one is ahead of the congregation and reaches "Yishtabach", he should recite it. Now, suppose he does so, and then the fellow in charge of getting people to lead the services comes over to him and asks him to lead shacharis. (Assume for the purposes of this question that he cannot, or does not, refuse, and goes to the lectern to lead the services.) Normally, the shacharis leader starts reciting aloud from "Yishtabach" and then says kadish — but, of course, in this case, he's said "Yishtabach" already. Skipping reciting it aloud will be unusual for the congregation (not a big deal necessarily) and may cause someone present who cannot himself pray to miss out on hearing a prayer and fulfilling his obligation that way (not likely, but conceivable, in most synagogues). On the other hand, I seem to recall a rule that no one say chatzi kadish between prayer sections without saying the preceding prayer immediately beforehand; if I recall that rule correctly, then for our protagonist to start with kadish would be inappropriate also. So what should he do?
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