[Avodah] Nefilas Apaim in Yerushalayim

[Elliott Shevin]

> From: "Gilad Field" <gilad73 at gmail.com>> Subject: [Avodah] Nefilas Apaim in Yerushalayim
> I saw in "Sefer Eretz Yisrael" (by Harav Tukachinsky (spelling?)) that you> should do nefilas apaim in Yerushayim even in a place with no sefer torah or> even if it is not a makom kavuah for tefillah.
My own rav (Eliezer Cohen of Oak Park, MI) invoked a psak that nefilas apaim should be done wherever one is davening, Yerushalayim or not, sefer torah or not (and, I presume, makom kavuah or not). The logic is simple: you're not petitioning a sefer torah; you're petitioning HKBH, Who is everywhere.
 
Some people I've explained this to bring in the irrelevant notion that some tumah (excuse the euphemism) or a non-Jew might be between you and the nearest aron hakodesh, forgetting that the psak rests on the notion that it doesn't matter where a sefer torah is with respect to the mitpallel.
 
When he mentioned it, our minyan didn't have a sefer torah at the time. If we had, the issue probably wouldn't have come up.
 
Elly
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