<div dir="ltr"><<> 1. They do not say tachanun ever at Mincha.<br>
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Nor do Boston (in Har Nof; I've never been to Boston.).>><br><br>I was told that since shtiebels frequently daven mincha late by time<br>they reach tachanun it is after shkia and one doesnt say tachanun.<br>From there it evolved to never saying tachanun for mincha.<br>
<br>There are various minhagim (especially chassidic) which seem to be<br>against halacha and people stuggle to justify.<br>One frequent explanation is that the minhag arose in some special<br>circumstances where it was justified but then spread to all occasions.<br>
<br>A famous example in not eating in the succah on shmini atzeret evening<br>and making kiddush in the succah in the morning and then eating indoors<br>(all this in chul). This also sometimes justified by claiming that the<br>
rebbes had huge crowds which could not be accommodated in the succah<br><br>BTW this leads to a lot of confusion for olim. I have a number of arguments<br>with recent olim to EY who wanted to make kiddush in the succah on<br>
shmini azeret in the morning and I tried explaining that it didnt apply in EY<br><br>A personal story. I read that RYBS objected strongly to the double daled knot<br>for the head tefillin on the grounds that it is a square and not 2 daleds.<br>
Based on that I changed my tefillin to a single daled knot. My son recently told<br>me that he has a double daled knot since that is what I ordered when he<br>was bar mitzvah (before I changed)<br><br><br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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