[Avodah] Tefilin On Chol hamoed In Eretz Yisroel (and Flatbush)

[Prof. Levine]

At 08:52 AM 3/30/2018, you wrote:
>Is that a common interperation of minhag hamaqom -- that there be
>a common practice in all things? I understood minhag hamaqom to
>be designated practive by practice.

Otherwise the concept of Minhag Ha Makom is 
meaningless.  In Europe before the advent of 
Chassidus each  community had its own distinct 
practices and there was indeed a Minhag Ha 
Makom.  My understanding is that in Syria the 
Aleppo and Damascus communities had there own 
minhagim (different) minhagim.  To me minhag ha 
makom means that all of the people have the same 
minhagim.  In America I believe you have this in New Square.


>On the topic of tefillin on ch"m, there is enough consensus in EY
>not to wear tham, that for this one topic there is a minhag hamaqom.

This is changing. From https://goo.gl/1PYXP4


Many people wear tefillin on chol hamoed in Eretz 
Yisroel, including some gedolim. However, some do 
it betzinoh so it is not so well known.

One such godol is the Erlau’er Rebbe. You can go 
in his beis medrash and see him with tefillin. He 
keeps the minhogim of his zeide, the Chasam 
Sofer, to wear tefillin on chol hamoed and daven nusach Ashkenaz.

There are even some minyonim where people wear 
tefillin on Chol Hamoed, like a Yekkishe minyan in Bnei Brak that I know of.

Bekitzur, Al titosh toras imecho, keep on 
following your minhog and Al yisbayeish
., as the 
Rama says in beginning of Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim.

See the other comments there.


>For other things? Give it time. How long did it take Jews from Provence,
>Italy and elsewhere to congeal into a single minhag Ashkenaz?

On the contrary,  I doubt that the Chassidim will 
ever eat Gebrokts on Pesach,  the Sephardim will 
stop eating kitnyos, and  the non-Chassidic world 
will stop eating Gebrokts on Pesach.


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