What is the status of the maftir: does he count toward the required number of aliyot, and must Kaddish precede his reading?
Synopsis
The normative ruling is that maftir counts toward the required minimum in principle, but the established custom on Shabbat and Yom Tov is to complete the full required count (seven or five) before maftir and to say Kaddish in between, thereby treating maftir as outside the count.
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