Q. Given that it is preferable to hear Megillas Esther together with a large crowd (b'rov am hadras Melech), is it better to daven with a small crowd at the Vasikin Minyan (at sunrise), or to daven with a larger crowd later at the main Minyan?
A. In this case, there are two competing factors. On the one hand, it is preferable to perform a mitzvah at the earliest opportunity (zerizim makdimim l'mitzvos). On the other hand, it is preferable to hear the Megillah together with a large crowd (b'rov am). The question here is which one of these considerations takes precedence. Rav Zylberstein (Chashukei Chemed, Megila 27b) rules that in this case, it is proper to delay the mitzvah, so it can be performed b'rov am. This is because joining together with a large crowd offers a greater publicization of the miracle, which is a fundamental component of the mitzvah of reading the Megillah. However, if one is accustomed to davening with the Vasikin Minyan all week long, they should daven there on Purim as well. This is because the Mishnah Berurah (687:7) writes that one who has a makom kavua (set place to daven) need not change their location to daven b'rov am.
I daven at the Flatbush Vosikin Minyan and on Purim morning the minyan will be held in the High School Bais Medrash of Yeshiva Rabeinu Chaim Berlin. In previous years there has been a very large crowd of both men and women, so at least here in Flatbush there is no problem with Vosikan and a large crowd.
: From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis
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: A. ... Rav
: Zylberstein (Chashukei Chemed, Megila 27b) rules that in this case,
: it is proper to delay the mitzvah, so it can be performed b'rov
: am. This is because joining together with a large crowd offers
: a greater publicization of the miracle, which is a fundamental
: component of the mitzvah of reading the Megillah. However, if one
: is accustomed to davening with the Vasikin Minyan all week long,
: they should daven there on Purim as well. This is because the Mishnah
: Berurah (687:7) writes that one who has a makom kavua (set place to
: daven) need not change their location to daven b'rov am.
Interesting. RYZ's hava amina was that berov am would trump kevasiqin,
if it weren't that it was your maqom qavua:
maqom kavuah
berov am
kevasiqin
Of course, if someone were talking about berov am and leining Mon & Thu,
the first two concerns are intertwined. Qeri'as haTorah is frequent
enough for regularly davening kevasiqin to *define* one's maqom kavua.
This is really only an issue for people like myself, who want to daven
qevasiqin because it's Purim, and there is so much to do before the
se'udah.
I have a feeling or at least a hope that shalom bayis trumps all three...
Interesting. RYZ's hava amina was that berov am would trump kevasiqin,
if it weren't that it was your maqom qavua:
Berov Am is important and that is why I have always wondered how in
some places they make 2 or 3 or 4 or even more minyanim on Motzoei
Shabbos when 2 or 3 or more people have yahrtzeit during the following week.
When I was an Avel I never went along with making another minyan if
there was another avel. I felt that Berov Am was more
important, and hence I would let the other Avel daven for the amud
and just say Kaddish.
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<font size=3>At 05:48 AM 2/28/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Interesting. RYZ's hava amina
was that berov am would trump kevasiqin,<br>
if it weren't that it was your maqom qavua:</blockquote><br>
Berov Am is important and that is why I have always wondered how in some
places they make 2 or 3 or 4 or even more minyanim on Motzoei Shabbos
when 2 or 3 or more people have yahrtzeit during the following
week.<br><br>
When I was an Avel I never went along with making another minyan if there
was another avel. I felt that Berov Am was more important,
and hence I would let the other Avel daven for the amud and just say
Kaddish.<br><br>
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