[Avodah] Chazzan pacing the tzibur/long tachanun

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

RRW:
Tur quqotes Rav Natronai [sp??] Gaon: "Tachanun is optional"
Thus anyone has ample Halachici precedent to be meikel.



There was once a dispute in a Shul about saying Tachanun, IIRC, in the days
between Sukkos and Rosh Chodesh. There was reason to go either way, and a
leading American Posek was approached for a Psak. He said that in America,
the Minhag is always to be Maikel when it comes to saying Tachanun (IOW, the
Psak was not to say it).

KT,
MYG