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<font size=3>At 05:28 AM 4/28/2011, R. David Cohen wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">R' Eli Turkel wrote:<br><br>
> The origin of the halacha is that a community should not be split
(lo<br>
> titgodedu). In the old days if an Ashkenazi would<br>
> move to Bagdad would he start investigating what are original
local<br>
> minhagim or not? As far as I know anyone who wears tefillin in
shul<br>
> in EY on chol hamoed violates lo titgodedu. Even a visitor from chul
should<br>
> put on tefillin at home.<br>
><br><br>
That's true, if we're talking about an individual putting on tefillin in
one<br>
of our existing shuls, in which nobody else is doing so.<br>
The analogous question in this discussion, however, is whether a
community<br>
could decide to establish a new shul in EY in which everybody will put
on<br>
tefilin on chol hamoed.<br>
</blockquote>I am willing to bet that in Rabbi Benyamin Bamburger's shul
in Bnei Brak everyone puts on tefillin on Chol Moed, although I do not
know for sure. I have heard that there are other shuls in EY where
this is also done. <br><br>
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