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At 11:41 AM 11/17/2011, R. Meir Rabi wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">N) I
believe that R ShZA, discouraged or prohibited people forming a<br>
Minyan on a plane, due to concerns of ChH. I understood that this was
true<br>
even when all the J were davening in that Minyan and all the other<br>
passengers were NJ. If I understand R Zev correctly, he would insist
that<br>
this is a KH.</blockquote><br>
Please see
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/7d6a6ac" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/7d6a6ac</a><br><br>
Among other things Rav H Schechter writes, <br><br>
"However, when Orthodox Jews disturb non-observant Jewish passengers
with their <i>davening</i>, the non-observant passengers sill remain
non-observant and now just have another point about which to be upset
with the Orthodox. The practice of the Orthodox passengers under such
circumstances appears simply as an act of harassment. Rather than having
accomplished the <i>hidur mitzvah</i> of <i>davening tefillah
btzibur</i>, they have violated <i>lifnei iver</i> by causing the
non-observant passengers to become more antagonistic towards <i>shemiras
hamitzvos</i>. The shouting tone of voice employed by the <i>shaliach
tzibbur</i> to overcome the noise on the airplane clearly does not
constitute a <i>kavod hatefillah</i>."<br><br>
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"However, it is still not proper to gather a <i>minyan</i> together
near the washrooms, disturbing all the other passengers and the
stewardesses. As much as various Torah giants of our generation have
expressed their opposition to such <i>minyanim</i> on
airplanes<a name="_ednref2"></a>[2], their message has not yet been
accepted."<br><br>
<a name="_edn2"></a>[2] Rav Shlomo Wahrman
(<a href="http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2010/airplane-Rwharman.pdf">
<i> She'eiris Yosef</a></i> vol. 7,
<i>siman</i>
<a href="http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2010/airplane-Rwharman.pdf">
3</a>) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (<i>Halichos Shlomo</i>, page
75), Rav Moshe Feinstein (<i>Igros Moshe Orach Chaim</i> vol. 4
<i>siman</i> 20), Rav Ovadiah Yosef, and Rav Shmuel Wosner all objecting
to <i>minyanim</i> on airplanes that disturb other passengers <br><br>
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