[Avodah] Two Rabbis and Tefillin

Prof. Levine larry62341 at optonline.net
Wed Apr 4 07:44:34 PDT 2018


At 09:28 AM 4/4/2018, Mandel, Seth wrote:
>This was true in Europe, where there was such a thing as 'mnhag hamokom."

>But in America, most shuls are composed of people from Lita, from 
>Poland, from Hungary, from Galicia, and from Germany, all of whom 
>came from different places with different minhogim....

>Quoting the Mishna Brurah is not an excuse.  He was from Lita, where 
>there was a mnhag hamokom.

If Rabbi Heineman in Baltimore can insist that anyone who does not 
wear tefillin during Chol Moed has to daven Shachris in the Ladies 
Section than this shul which says that the minhag of the shul  is to 
wear tefillin can send all of the non-tefillin wearers up to the 
Ladies Section


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