[Avodah] Tachanun

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 08:52 -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
> We paskin tachanun is "reshut" and thus are more liberal in dispensing
> with saying it.  
> Question: Is tachanun a din in the individual or the tzibbur or both?
> example- you're visiting a friend and daven in a chaddishe minyan on a
> rebbi's yahrtzeit - do you say tachanun there? after you leave? not at
> all? is it your choice?

In Yalkut Yosef Siman 131, halacha 35, RYY rules that omitting tachanun
on the yahrtzeit of tzaddikim is a mistaken custom, and one who davens
in minyan that has such a custom should say tachanun any way (even
though the rest of the tzibbur is following the mistaken custom).

--Ken