GH
“I’m certain that other shuls the issue is as much an entitlement by virtue of years of having sat in the same place rather than a financial entitlement to the seat. However, some of the comments seem to conflate the two different situations.”
thats becasue halachicly they arent neccesarily different. a Kinyan on land can be made by either ?KEsef or chazaka.
Iacrisma
“he whole thread can be boiled down to the essential questions:”
I like your essential questions
however, I think reasonable people can disagree on most of those, thus I dont find them particularly interesting.
what I did not think reasonable people can argue with was the point made by several posters that astounded me. Namely: that It is wrong (one poster wrote “assur”) to ask someone to switch seats no matter at what point during davening the request is made, no matter how nicely you ask, no matter how good of a seat is provided.