Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

or Nosach Svar instead of Edot Mizrach, that's very sweet of them, but they're under no obligation to conform to what you want them to do.

There are minages that they do, so yeah, you have to participate in that minage, otherwise it would be lo seskod to do.

So there are places that, so again, if it's a Geruch Chassid's office, he can be Kovei Adamin, and you go along with that minage.

If it's not his office, so there are places where there are a bunch of different Jews of different stripes and different types that are all gathered together in one place, and the minig is whoever gets up to Davin is the one that's coveil, like the minig I just mentioned in the Minion Factory and the Five Towns.

Some people tell me this is popular in yeshivos in Israel.

I know in Yeshivat Shalavim, where several of my sons learned, they have such a minhag, that whoever gets Abdam, he's the one that determines it.

So Rav Shlomo Zalman in Halicha Shlomo discusses this very issue, if they're going to be skipping Tachnon.

So he says, look, if it's a minyan whose minhag is to not say Tachnun, so then it's also close to say Tachnun.

You should skip Tachnun as well.

However, if they're just skipping it, but there is no minhag that they're following, they just know that Tachnun is shorter.

Without Tachnun, Rosh Hashanah said, then you should say Tachnun.

Then you should not go along with something that is not at all based on any minhag.

I don't see why the same guy should be davening every day, meaning you could get other people up there to daven for an Amud.

Okay, question number three.

Should a person wear his talus over his head while davening?

Does the answer differ for married men, unmarried men, someone davening for an Amud, and should it cover the entire davening or only certain parts?

Okay, so let me share with you some of Rav Shechter's Torah on this issue.

There is a Magan Avram in Simen Ches, in Hilchot Tzitzis, based on the Gemara of Kedushon Tav Chav Tess, who says that unmarried men do not do atifah sarosh.

The Gemara also implies that atifah is limited to special people, people of a certain stature.

The Gemara sounds like it was only Tammid HaChamim that would do atifah.