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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">One rabbi who has a shul in Flatbush told me that while his minhag is to put on tefillin during Chol Moed, he does this privately, since the minhag of his shul is not to put on tefillin during Chol Moed.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Yesterday I davened in a shul where the minhag is to put on tefillin during Chol Moed. Much to my surprise the rabbi of the shul was sitting up front without wearing tefillin. When I asked his brother, who does put
on tefillin during Chol Moed, about this, he told that the rabbi put on tefillin during Chol Moed until he married. "Our minhag is to put on tefillin during Chol Moed," he said.
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">My understanding is that in a shul where the minhag is to not wear tefillin during Chol Moed, one who does wear them should not wear them in such a shul. On the other hand, in a shul wear the minhag is to put on tefillin
during Chol Moed, one who does not put on tefillin should not display this publicly. I was told that in Rabbi Heineman's shul in Baltimore, those who do not put on tefillin during Chol Moed daven in the ladies section.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thus I do not understand how the rabbi of the shul that I davened in yesterday could sit up front facing everyone without wearing tefillin.</p>
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