[Avodah] Tefillin on Rosh Chodesh

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Dec 11, 2007 11:48 AM, David Riceman <driceman at att.net> wrote:

> Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
> > Do we have any idea how fast this Minhag spread? Maybe it took a long
> > time.
> > Besides, there are many Minhagim, I believe, based on the Zohar which
> people
> > found out about, somehow, sometime.
> But it's not a minhag, it's a halacha.  If one may wear tefillin on Hol
> HaMoed then one must.
>
> David Riceman
>

The Zohar says one MAY NOT wear Tefilin on Hol Hamo'ed

However see the Ikkar Tos. YT at the end of mo'ed katan fora a completely
non-kabbalistic argument for not wearing Tefilin on Hol Hamo'ed.

See Dr. Ya'akov Katz's sefer on halachah and Kabablah

See Menachem Elon's work on Halachah. There are MANY types of minhaggim. !
kind of minhag is the minhag to follow 1 poseik over another.  [e.g. it is
the Ashknezic MINHAG to follow pskim who require tefilin on Hulo shel mo'ed,
or it is the Ashknezic Minhag to follow the poskim who require salting meat
for a full hour except behsa'as hadechak]

See Kaf hachayyim on Brachos that are questionable 'sfeik brachos l'hakeil.
He specifically states that saying an extra bracha basesd upon one's minhag
[e.g. minhag ashkenaz to say 2 brachos on Tefillin, or a bracha on Hallel
for Rosh Hodesh etc.] does NOT constitute a case of s'feik brachos lehakeil
In this sense Minhag means one's shita or one's community's shita.


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