[Avodah] ashkenazi minhag

[David Cohen]

R' Eli Turkel wrote:

> The origin of the halacha is that a community should not be split (lo
> titgodedu). In the old days if an Ashkenazi would
> move to Bagdad would he start investigating what are original local
> minhagim or not? As far as I know anyone who wears tefillin in shul
> in EY on chol hamoed violates lo titgodedu. Even a visitor from chul should
> put on tefillin at home.
>

That's true, if we're talking about an individual putting on tefillin in one
of our existing shuls, in which nobody else is doing so.
 The analogous question in this discussion, however, is whether a community
could decide to establish a new shul in EY in which everybody will put on
tefilin on chol hamoed.

As demonstrated by "List B" in my previous post, there are many instances in
which even when it comes to multiple Ashkenazi shuls, we assume that there
are "two battei din in one city," and that different shuls keeping different
minhagim does not violate "lo tisgodedu."  (And that is considering just the
Ashkenazim...).  The question here is really whether we can use the heter of
"two battei din in one city" to justify the coexistence of different customs
in certain instances ("List B"), yet at the same time maintain that
divergence from the customs on List A violates "lo tisgodedu."  An argument
could be made that once there are already "two battei din in the city,"
there should be no problem opening up a third (*i.e.* one that does not keep
to "List A").

-- D.C.
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