[Avodah] Hallel and Tfillin

[Zev Sero]

On 26/6/19 6:05 pm, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
> Why do we take off tfillin before Hallel on Rosh Chodesh but before
> mussaf (for those who wear tfillin) on Chol Hamoed?
You have that backwards.

As I understand it, for those who daven Nusach Ashkenaz there is no 
reason to remove tefillin at all on Rosh Chodesh.  People only do so 
because the Shulchan Aruch says to, but as the Taz points out this only 
applies to Nusach Sefarad/"Sfard", which says Keter/Kesser.  If you say 
Nekadesh (or are davening without a minyan) the tefillin can stay on.

(Which leads me to wonder how Italians, who say Keter in every tefillah, 
hold about the propriety of doing so in tefillin, and whether they too 
remove them on Rosh Chodesh, and if so why.)

On Chol Hamoed I assume that once you've started on the "yomtov" portion 
of the davening tefillin become a contradiction, so they come off.

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