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face=Arial><BR>[1] From: "Prof. Levine via Avodah"
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>> My understanding is that people
who wear Tefillen during Cho Moed are <BR>not supposed to wear them in a minyan
where the custom is that no one <BR>wears Tefillen. I know that in a
couple of shuls near me they are <BR>makpid that those who wear Tefillen and
those who do not do wear them <BR>do not daven together until after the kedusha
of shachris when <BR>Tefillen are taken off. <<<BR>YL
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From: Allan Engel via Avodah <avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>>
Why would tefillin be any different to the various different
practises<BR>about who does and doesn't wear a tallis? I have never heard of
a<BR>non-tallis-wearing post-bar-mitzva boy being banished behind the
mechitza<BR>at a yekkishe shul, or vice versa.
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<DIV>The difference between the tallis-or-not issue and the tefillin-or-not
issue is that the former is in the realm of minhag while the latter is in the
realm of halacha. People are not so makpid about differing minhagim in the
same shul, but differing piskei halacha in the same shul -- that is much more
serious. When you have some men wearing tefillin and others not wearing
tefillin in the same minyan on chol hamoed, the presence of each subset
implies that the members of the other subset are transgressing
halacha. This makes the whole set, with its mutually contradictory
halachic subsets, look bad from a Heavenly perspective, and potentially brings
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
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