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<font size=3>At 06:54 AM 4/28/2011, David Cohen wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">R' Yitzchok Levine wrote:<br>
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<dd>I am willing to bet that in Rabbi Benyamin (B)[H]amburger'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
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Correct. But in the MMA-affiliated shul in Jerusalem, they don't,
since they asked a different posek (R' Elyashiv) and got a different
pesak.<br>
See
<a href="http://www.kayj.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111">
http://www.kayj.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111</a>.<br><br>
-- D.C.</blockquote><br>
The following is from
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3ouq78x" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/3ouq78x</a><br><br>
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<font size=3>Many people wear tefillin on chol hamoed in Eretz Yisroel,
including some gedolim. However, some do it betzinoh so it is not so well
known. <br><br>
One such godol is the Erlau'er Rebbe. You can go in his beis medrash and
see him with tefillin. He keeps the minhogim of his zeide, the Chasam
Sofer, to wear tefillin on chol hamoed and daven nusach
Ashkenaz.<br><br>
There are even some minyonim where people wear tefillin on Chol Hamoed,
like a Yekkishe minyan in Bnei Brak that I know of.<br>
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Here are a few names, a sampling of some past gedolim who wore tefillin
on chol hamoed IN ERETZ YISROEL (either betzinoh or otherwise) -
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Moreinu HaRav Schach, Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rav Michel Feinstein
(eidem of the Brisker Rav), Pressburger Rav, and Rav Duschinsky, "
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The " was in Eretz Yisroel. In his siddur Shaarei Shomayim, he has
tefillin on chol hamoed.<br><br>
Rav Moshe Feinstein writes in a teshuvoh that he knows of thousands
of bnei Torah who put on tefillin on chol hamoed in Eretz
Yisroel.<br><br>
I think there is an Oberlander minyan in Yerusholayim where they wear
tefillin on Chol Hamoed as well, if I recall correctly. <br>
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A friend of mine (Reb A.) sent me the following information a short while
ago, about minyonim where they wear tefillin on chol hamoed in Eretz
Yisroel bifarhesia.<br><br>
"There is one in Katamon by the Erlauer Rav (that one has a
chassidish taste to it). I travel there on the 1st day Chol HaMoed. There
is another one near Belz in the Minchas Yitzchak neighborhood, called
Kehillas Vien. It is an Oberlander minyan, according to Minhag Pressburg.
I go there for the other days of Chol HaMoed." <br><br>
See the rest of the comments there regarding wearing tefillin in EY on
Chol Moed. YL<br><br>
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