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<font size=3>At 11:37 AM 08/22/2007, REMT wrote:<br>
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Apparently, I was not clear. The minhag Yerushalayim I cited, which
required the chasan's presence for not saying tachanun, is not for a
chasuna minyan; it is for a minyan in shul (usually Shacharis, since
Mincha is generally davened at the wedding) on the day on which the
wedding will subsequently take place.<br><br>
EMT</blockquote><br>
This is not the same thing, but I once witnessed the following. I was
davening Shachris at Rav Avigdor Miller's shul one morning. After
Kedushah, during Chazoras Ha Shatz, Rav Miller quickly wrote out a
note and gave it to me. Thinking it was for me, I read it. He pointed to
the fellow behind me who was a new Chosson, so I handed it to him. The
note said, "Please leave shul so we can say Tachanun." The
chosson left and we said Tachanun. :-) <br><br>
I have been told that it is the custom in KAJ in Washington Heights for
Chassanim to leave shul so that the Tzebor can say Tachanun. <br><br>
"It is good to be careful that a <i>chasan</i> not attend shul
during the wedding week, because he would prevent the people from
reciting <i>Tachanun ... (</i>Mishnah <i>Berurah 131:26)" </i> This
is from Rabbi Yisroel Reisman's Forward to Rabbi R. Slater's book
Tachanun. <br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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