[Avodah] Chillul HaShem and Davening on Airplanes

[Prof. Levine]

At 11:41 AM 11/17/2011, R. Meir Rabi wrote:
>N)     I believe that R ShZA, discouraged or prohibited people forming a
>Minyan on a plane, due to concerns of ChH. I understood that this was true
>even when all the J were davening in that Minyan and all the other
>passengers were NJ. If I understand R Zev correctly, he would insist that
>this is a KH.

Please see http://tinyurl.com/7d6a6ac

Among other things Rav H Schechter writes,

"However, when Orthodox Jews disturb non-observant Jewish passengers 
with their davening, the non-observant passengers sill remain 
non-observant and now just have another point about which to be upset 
with the Orthodox. The practice of the Orthodox passengers under such 
circumstances appears simply as an act of harassment. Rather than 
having accomplished the hidur mitzvah of davening tefillah btzibur, 
they have violated lifnei iver by causing the non-observant 
passengers to become more antagonistic towards shemiras hamitzvos. 
The shouting tone of voice employed by the shaliach tzibbur to 
overcome the noise on the airplane clearly does not constitute a 
kavod hatefillah."

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"However, it is still not proper to gather a minyan together near the 
washrooms, disturbing all the other passengers and the stewardesses. 
As much as various Torah giants of our generation have expressed 
their opposition to such minyanim on airplanes[2], their message has 
not yet been accepted."

[2] Rav Shlomo Wahrman 
(<http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2010/airplane-Rwharman.pdf> 
She'eiris Yosef  vol. 7, 
siman<http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2010/airplane-Rwharman.pdf> 
3) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichos Shlomo, page 75), Rav 
Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe Orach Chaim vol. 4 siman 20), Rav 
Ovadiah Yosef, and Rav Shmuel Wosner all objecting to minyanim on 
airplanes that disturb other passengers

YL
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