[Avodah] Nefilas Apaim in Yerushalayim

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Mar 14 14:41:16 PDT 2007


Elliott Shevin wrote:

> 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.

What's his basis for such a psak?  His own sevara?

(See Rema OC 131:2, ultimately based on Yehoshua 7:6).


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