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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>On the issue of Lo sisgodidu:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rav Pam, who put on tefilin during chol hamoed, once told me that he “does not understand why ppl raise Lo sisgodidu when it comes to chol hamoed minyanim. Nowadays everyone knows that there are different minhagim so it shouldn’t be applicable. Nonetheless, people who put on tefilin, should try and have their own minyan.” I first met him succos 1967, standing at the entrance of the Young Israel of Rugby(?) in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, trying to drum up a few more ppl for his tefilin minyan. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found the same language in Rav Moshe Shternbauch’s, Maase Rav HeChadash regarding doing tachnun on the tefilin hand. He holds like the Ari and the Gra that we are nofel on the tefilin hand, and that it is not an inyan of lo sisgodidu and he doesn’t understand why all those ppl who say that they follow the Ari in so many instances don’t do likewise.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>___________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Joel Schnur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Senior VP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Government Affairs/Public Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Schnur Associates, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1350 Avenue of the Americas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Suite 1200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>New York, NY 10019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tel. 212-489-0600 x204<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fax. 212-489-0203 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:joel@schnurassociates.com">joel@schnurassociates.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.schnurassociates.com/">www.schnurassociates.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>