[Avodah] Ashkenazi minhag

[Prof. Levine]

At 05:28 AM 4/28/2011, R. David Cohen  wrote:

>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.
I am willing to bet that in Rabbi Benyamin Bamburger's shul in Bnei 
Brak everyone puts on tefillin on Chol Moed, although I do not know 
for sure.  I have heard that there are other shuls in EY where this 
is also done.

YL
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