[Avodah] Two Rabbis and Tefillin

[Mandel, Seth]

From: Prof. Levine <larry62341 at optonline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 10:44 AM
> 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

Any shul has the right to set up its own rules, and anyone who davens
there has to follow its rules. That is also halokho. Even if they were
to make a rule, for instance, that one must wear green on Chanukka.
Or that the shul must say the prayer for the State of Israel.

But to claim that it is halokho that in America people who daven
with t'fillin may not daven together with people who do not is wrong.
There is no such halokho in America.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel
Rabbinic Coordinator
The Orthodox Union