[Avodah] tachanun at Bris

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, August 23, 2007 7:16 pm, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> In my shul in EY we do say Tachanun in Mincha in such a case.
:> We only omit it in Shacharit for all the minyanim in the shul even
:> those that have nothing to do with the brit

: IIRC from R' Sperber's minhagei Yisrael the original minhag was the
: whole town didn't say tachanun.

Perhaps to parallel the difference between the classic town and
today's norm where there are "multiple batei din in the city". Today,
each shul can have its own nusach and minhag. Implied is that
"kehillah" has taken on a more restricted scope.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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