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==Davening in a Minyan that Has a Different Minhag== | ==Davening in a Minyan that Has a Different Minhag== | ||
See [[Davening_with_a_Minyan_That_Uses_a_Different_Nusach]] | See [[Davening_with_a_Minyan_That_Uses_a_Different_Nusach]] | ||
== Changing One’s Nusach HaTefillah (Ashkenaz, Edot HaMizrach, Nusach Sefard) == | |||
# Barring any extenuating circumstances (as determined by a Rav/Posek), one should not change his or her Nusach Hatefillah (rite of prayer) from that of his or her ancestors. <ref> Magen Avraham on S”A O”C 98:1. Aside from his own position, the Magen Avraham quotes that of the Arizal as saying that there are 12 gates that reach heaven, parallel to the 12 shevatim. Each shevet had its own way of davening that passed through its own gate. One should not change his Nusach, lest his tefilot enter the wrong gate and become incapable of ascending to heaven. | |||
The Chatam Sofer (Shu”t Chatam Sofer O”C 16) was of this opinion as well. Since all of the Nusachot contain deep allusions to divine secrets and praises to Hashem, no one Nusach is superior to the others. Therefore, there is no reason for anyone to switch. </ref> | |||
#Nonetheless, if a person momentarily finds himself in a shul of a different Nusach and cannot find the siddur for his proper Nusach, he can still fulfill his obligation to daven on a level of bedieved by davening per the shul’s Nusach. <ref> Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg based on Mishna Berurah Siman 68:1 </ref>. | |||
# Examples of mitigating circumstances favoring a switch in Nusach include when the Nusach being changed to is the person’s ancestral Nusach, if the person’s father would not be upset by the change and if the person was previously educated in that Nusach. These factors together may warrant a change in Nusach. <ref> Shu”t Minchat Asher 2:8 </ref> Others include such circumstances as if one was previously educated in a Nusach and it would be too difficult to revert back to the ancestral Nusach, if one is a ba’al teshuva or a convert and is close to the Rabbi who educated him, or if a child in yeshiva is concerned that davening differently may lead to estrangement from his peers and subsequent struggles in his learning. <ref> Halichot Shlomo, Hilchot Tefilah 5:22 </ref> | |||
# In the event it is determined by a Rav that a change in Nusach is necessary, there are a variety of opinions who maintain that davening in each one of the different Nuscha’ot would be correct even if that is not the person’s original Nusach. <ref> Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggrot Moshe O”C 2:22) maintains that switching from Nusach Sefard to Nusach Ashkenaz would be correct as Nusach Ashkenaz has a more substantial mesorah. Rav Ovadiah Yosef (Yalkut Yosef O”C 101:7), based on the Chida, maintains that one can switch from Ashkenaz to Nusach Sefard/Edot HaMizrach as it is more correct according to Kabbalah. The Divrei Chaim, Sha’ar HaKollel and others maintain one can switch from Ashkenaz to Nusach Sefard/Ar”i as it is the Nusach that unlocks all 12 gates or a separate 13th gate to heaven for tefillot to be heard.) </ref> | |||
# In the event that two shuls of different Nuscha’ot need to combine due to a lack of congregants, the shuls may choose the nusach of one of them and daven according to that Nusach going forward. <ref>Shu”t Chatam Sofer C”M 188, Shu”t Yabia Omer O”C Vol. 6:10 </ref> | |||
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