[Avodah] Chabad and Putting on Tefillin on Chol Moed

[Prof. Levine]

At 10:52 AM 11/28/2011, Zev Sero wrote:


>Do you really wonder?  How is it not absolutely obvious to you that he
>did not?  The first and most obvious proof is the fact that L chassidim
>don't.  If the AR wore tefillin on CHM then so would his chassidim,
>regardless of what other chassidim do.  The second and equally obvious
>proof is from the fact that his rebbe, the Mezritcher Maggid, and his
>rebbe's rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov, did not.  It's inconceivable that he
>would wear tefillin when they did not.

A friend of mine told me that the Chabad Library in Crown Heights has 
a siddur that the Baal Shem Tov used.  It is hand written.  He told 
me that he saw it and that it is *Nusach Ashkenaz*!!!!!    I know 
this fellow and have no reason to doubt what he told me.  Based on 
this I conclude that the Baal Shem Tov davened Nusach Ashkenaz, yet 
his followers of later generations did not.  So, it is also possible 
that the Baal Shem Tov did put on tefillin during Chol Moed, and the 
Mezritcher Maggid and even the AR and yet their followers of later 
generation did not follow what they did.  I have no proof of this, 
but I just wanted to point out that your argument does not seem to be 
on a solid footing.   YL
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