[Avodah] Chol Moed Minyan for Those Who Wear Tefillen

[via Avodah]

[1] From: "Prof. Levine via Avodah"  <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>

>> My understanding is that people  who wear Tefillen during Cho Moed are 
not supposed to wear them in a minyan  where the custom is that no one 
wears Tefillen.  I know that in a  couple of shuls near me they are 
makpid that those who wear Tefillen and  those who do not do wear them 
do not daven together until after the kedusha  of shachris when 
Tefillen are taken off.  <<
YL 
 

[2]  From: Allan Engel via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>

>>  Why would tefillin be any different to the various different  practises
about who does and doesn't wear a tallis? I have never heard of  a
non-tallis-wearing post-bar-mitzva boy being banished behind the  mechitza
at a yekkishe shul, or vice versa.  <<
 
 
>>>>
 
The difference between the tallis-or-not issue and the tefillin-or-not  
issue is that the former is in the realm of minhag while the latter is in the  
realm of halacha.  People are not so makpid about differing minhagim in the  
same shul, but differing piskei halacha in the same shul -- that is much 
more  serious. When you have some men wearing tefillin and others not wearing  
tefillin in the same minyan on chol hamoed, the presence of each subset  
implies that the members of the other subset are transgressing  halacha. This 
makes the whole set, with its mutually contradictory  halachic subsets, look 
bad from a Heavenly perspective, and potentially brings  down Heavenly 
judgment.
 
 

--Toby  Katz
t613k at aol.com
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