[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[Zev Sero]

On 18/09/2010 1:44 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:

> R' David Yosef (Halacha Berura 94:6) poskins that if the heichal is on
> the wrong side of the beit kenesset, and the tzibbur is davening to face
> it (so they're all facing the wrong direction, in violation of the
> halacha to daven facing Eretz Yisrael/Yerushalyim/Beit Hamikdash/Kodeh
> HaKodeshim) then those who want to be correct should not orient their
> bodies differently from the tzibbur, rather they should orient their
> bodies to the heichal, and orient their faces towards Eretz
> Yisrael/Yerushalyim/Beit Hamikdash/Kodeh HaKodeshim.

That's difficult to do if the tzibur is facing completely in the wrong
direction.

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