[Avodah] [Areivim] airline prayer

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, April 25, 2008 11:11 am, R Dov Weinstock wrote to Areivim:
: Re: the kaddish issue - despite the importance which kaddish has taken
: on in
: modern times, my understanding is that it has little true halachic
: significance. While I don't want to dissuade any avel from being
: conscientious about davening with a minyan, isn't this is a personal
: stringency which would have little weight vis-a-vis the other issues
: being discussed?

Minhag Yisrael (possibly dating back to the tannaim, but at least in
common in ALL major eidot) isn't simply dismissable as chumrah.

Otherwise, why not tell him to skip maariv?

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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