hi don’t have time to read all the blogs but this rainus fellow is generally right on par. it was stated here that rabbi ulmann of ciryas safer ruled for the yekkes of his city not to make a minyan with tephilin. i was there and he spoke thus unto me; the reason not to make a minyan with tephilin is that ciryas safer is a city with base din echod bo’ear and therefor one may not deviate from the local minhug in anything at all even in the nussach hatefilluh and if one makes a minyan that does not davin ashcenas he is transgressing the prohibition of exactly and possibly even more so then a minyan that puts on tephilin. also he continued and said that in any other city in erretz yissroail one should certainly make a minyin to put on tephilin on chol hamoeed, and he himself personally can not understand anyone today who does not put on tephilin. those were his very words. i think he added that if all the shuls in town do not fallow the same minhug in all and everything there does not apply this prohibition. he also stated the simple fact that there is no such thing as minhug israel, but they are all rather the cholent of people who were not gedoilim. to this i must add with regards to a ignoramy saying mention on this blog earlier that n israel they fallow minhug hagru”h. this is complete and total nonsense no more then the wishful deception of those european followers of the the Spanish and mosterabee minhug. to list the few infamous ones in short; the aforementioned, duchoning, saying pitum hacetoyres, not saying boruch hashem, not saying peeyoutim, chazzen and others not wearing a tallis, saying caddish derahbonon after ayn kaylokaynu, saying cavai before it, doing melochoh as early as they do after shabbos, are all, hock lock and sinker, spanish minhugim. all in all it seems that israel wins hands down the title for worst minhugim. sorry about the brevity.
