[Avodah] Walking in front of a mispallel

[Alan Yaniger]

Take a look at Tzitz Eliezer 9:8. His limud zechut includes:

a) The issur is to disturb people's kavannah, and most people don't
have kavannah anyway. So you can rely on the rov and assume you're not
disturbing kavannah, particularly if there's "bal tishakzu" involved.

b) the issur might be only when the davener is in front of a wall, but
not in the middle of a room.

c) if it's a situation that someone stands where there's lots of
traffic, he can't claim the space as "his". It's similar to a grave
which causes danger to the public, which can be moved.

Alan