[Avodah] minhagei EY vs chul

[Eli Turkel]

I viisited Vienna over the weekend and observed many things diffrent in
Vienna (and the US) from Israel

These are based on my limited observations and habe no statistics

1) Early minyan on shabbat
In EY this is arranged so mincha is before plag and kabbalt shabbat is
after plag.
In In Vienna (and Teaneck among others) it is a fixed time frequently 7pm
independent of plag

BTW walking back after shul and walking along the Danube I remarked to
someone about the famous psak of the Maharil of walking with the kahal
along the Danube and coming home while the sun was still out. Somone said
the remarkable thing was not that the Maharil davened early but that he
went for a stroll (tiyul) with the congegation. Today no rabbi in Vienna
would go for a stroll with the kehilla

2) Between mincha and maarive during the week - in Chil frequently a 2
minute break while in Israel a 20-25 minute break

3) A fast is over in Teaneck at the time of motzei shabbat. In EY we
usually daven maariv 20-25 minutes after shekia and the fast is over some
15 minutes before the time of motzei shabat

-- 
Eli Turkel
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