[Avodah] Keeping Up With The Tsibbur

[Liron Kopinsky]

>
> > Who says you have to keep up with the minyan?  If you start Shmoneh
> > Esrei with them, can't you take as long as you want?
> >
>
> No.
>
> If you do, you are preventing people from walking in front of you, and
> you are preventing anyone within 4 amot of you from sitting down.
>
>

2 Points:
1) I have found that most people aren't so makpid in this halacha
2) I thought the halacha was only that people can't walk within the 4 amot
directly infront of you, and that things like chairs are considered a
hefsek.

Thanks,
~Liron
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