[Avodah] [Areivim] what proportion would return to the yeshiva

[Zev Sero]

On 19/07/2012 5:50 PM, Daniel M. Israel wrote:
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> But the question I wanted to raise here is something else.  To what extent is an army unit a kahilah in the sense that someone joining such a unit would be obligated to accept the local mara d'asra?  Is there a difference between a charedi soldier and a charedi who is forced for health or parnassa reasons to move to a town where the Rav ha'ir is RZ?  In general in such a case the typical response is to not use the local Rav, and speak to a more charedi Rav by phone, but there really is not halachic justification for this, is there?  (And I write this as someone who is as guilty of it as everyone else.)

A soldier has not "moved" to the IDF's virtual "makom", he is merely
visiting, so if we follow this line of reasoning he's privately still
bound by the minhagim of his home, but he may not publicly be meikil
in something where the local minhag is to be machmir.

There's another twist: his visit is not by his own choice, so to
whatever extent a visitor in a town can be considered to have voluntarily
accepted the temporary authority of the local minhagim, he has not done
so.

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