<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:medium">When it comes to EY, the claim is that it is minhag Eretz Yisroel not to put on Tefillen during Chol Moed. However, according to Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Z'L, Rabbi Binyamin Hamburger, and I am sure others, there is no such thing as minhag EY. EY is a melting pot with congregations having many different minhagim. C</span><span style="font-size:medium">When it comes to EY, the claim is that it is minhag Eretz Yisroel not to put on Tefillen during Chol Moed. However, according to Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Z'L, Rabbi Binyamin Hamburger, and I am sure others, there is no such thing as minhag EY. EY is a melting pot with congregations having many different minhagim. Thus, to assert that one should not put on Tefillen, because one lives in EY seems to me to be unjustified. Indeed, I am told that there are people who live in Eretz Yisroel who put on Tefillen privately. Furthermore, there are some minyanim in EY at which Tefillen are worn publicly on Chol Moed. Ehrlau'er is one</span><span style="font-size:medium"> Indeed, I am told that there are people who live in Eretz Yisroel who put on Tefillen privately. Furthermore, there are some minyanim in EY at which Tefillen are worn publicly on Chol Moed. Ehrlau'er is one >></span><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">The vast majority of religious people in EY with almost all poskim require everyone in EY to follow the minhagim of EY. R Hamburger has been fighting this position for years claiming that the ancient ashkenazi (German) minhagim are the most accurate and therefore they should not change. My impression is that there is a handful of shuls that follow this opinion while thousands follow minhag EY.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">I am not familar with all the psakim of R. Hamburger (he has several seforim on the topic). For example standard practice that I know is that on chol hamoed succot the parshah of the day is read 4 times consecutively. Do these shuls really read from the next day also as done outside of Israel? I take it for granted that these communities do not keep two days of yomtov and eat in the succah on shemini azeret.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">I know that Rav Elyashiv was asked about wearing tefillin on Chol Hamoed and prohibited it but these communities continued to argue with the psak.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><<</font><span style="font-size:medium">Thus, to assert that one should not put on </span>Tefillen,<span style="font-size:medium"> because one lives in EY seems to me to be unjustified >></span></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">I find this statement quite strange. The minhag of not wearing tefillin in EY on chol hamoed is practiced by 99% of religious Jews living in EY. Isn't that justification enough? RSZA, RYSE, ROY, RAL among others didnt wear tefillin on chol hamoed were they all wrong?<br clear="all"></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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