[Avodah] Tachanun in Yerushalayim

[Zev Sero]

> From http://tinyurl.com/lueq3c6

> The answer is: Yerushalayim. Yes, Yerushalayim /Ir Hakodesh/. Ohr
> Somayach is privileged and blessed to be located in the Holy City of
> Jerusalem. As such, it maintains special dispensation for certain
> /tefillos/, one of them is /Tachanun/. In the words of Rav Moshe
> Feinstein[5], “Yerushalayim contains intrinsic holiness and is
> designated for prayer, and therefore even without a Sefer Torah one
> should do /nefillas apayim/, as it is comparable to a place that has
> a Sefer Torah!!”
>
> Another tefillah that is said fully in Yerushalayim in any location,
> for the same above-mentioned reasons, is Magen Avos on Friday
> night[9], which technically needs to be recited in the presence of a
> Sefer Torah, or be said in a set minyan[10].


Mah inyan Smitta etzel har sinai?   Bracha Me'ein Sheva (not just the
middle portion) does not depend on a sefer torah, and is not some holy
ritual like nefilas apayim that requires an extra level of kedusha.
It is not said at an ad hoc minyan simply because the reason it was
instituted in the first place does not apply.  BMSh exists to give the
latecomers time to catch up, and at an ad hoc minyan, even one that was
scheduled in advance, few latecomers can be expected.   This applies
just as much in Yerushalayim as anywhere else.   (Those who mention a
sefer torah do so only as a measure of the minyan's ad-hocness; if no
sefer torah has been moved in, that's likely a sign that it isn't a
fixed minyan.)

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