Hi,
"Rabbi Tanchum bar Chanilai said: One should never diverge from local practice. Moshe ascended to Heaven [on Sinai, to receive the Torah] and did not eat bread, and the angels descended to earth and did eat bread [in Abraham's house].
"Do you really think they ate?! Rather, they appeared to eat."
(Talmud, Bava Metzia 86b)
המצפה לישועה,
Mordechai
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When davening with a minyan that has a different nusach than the one you're inheriting, what is said quietly is in one's own nusach, what is said out loud is in the minyan's.
ReplyDeleteLike the angels: Do you think they really davened in the minyan's nusach? Rather they appeared to...
Conforming, it would seem, is a matter of appearance in particular.