[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[Simon Montagu]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Ben Waxman <ben1456 at zahav.net.il> wrote:
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> Actually what I have seen a few times (at the Kotel and in shuls in Jerusalem) are minyanim where some people face the front of the shul and few face some other direction (claiming that this is the "more correct" direction). I never knew if this was something of such import that it worth being poresh from the tzibbur.
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This seems to me hasidut shtut. See AHS OH 94:13 --
http://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9A_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%97_%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%93#.D7.A1.D7.99.D7.9E.D7.9F_.D7.A6.D7.93_.D7.A1.D7.A2.D7.99.D7.A3_.D7.99.D7.92
or http://tinyurl.com/2wwjacj

I would say that giving the impression of 2 reshuyot was orders of
magnitude more serious than being poresh from the tzibbur.