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<font size=3>At 10:52 AM 11/28/2011, Zev Sero wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Do you really wonder? How
is it not absolutely obvious to you that he<br>
did not? The first and most obvious proof is the fact that L
chassidim<br>
don't. If the AR wore tefillin on CHM then so would his
chassidim,<br>
regardless of what other chassidim do. The second and equally
obvious<br>
proof is from the fact that his rebbe, the Mezritcher Maggid, and
his<br>
rebbe's rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov, did not. It's inconceivable that
he<br>
would wear tefillin when they did not.</blockquote><br>
A friend of mine told me that the Chabad Library in Crown Heights has a
siddur that the Baal Shem Tov used. It is hand written. He
told me that he saw it and that it is *Nusach
Ashkenaz*!!!!! I know this fellow and have no reason to
doubt what he told me. Based on this I conclude that the Baal Shem
Tov davened Nusach Ashkenaz, yet his followers of later generations did
not. So, it is also possible that the Baal Shem Tov did put on
tefillin during Chol Moed, and the Mezritcher Maggid and even the AR and
yet their followers of later generation did not follow what they
did. I have no proof of this, but I just wanted to point out that
your argument does not seem to be on a solid footing.
YL</font></body>
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