Reply To: My erev Rosh Chodesh minhag

knaidlach,

A rav once saw a shochet on Shabbos during davening, and when saying POSE’ACH ES YADECHA…he didn’t move his right hand towards his left arm out of habit to touch the tefilin shel yad. The rav fired the shochet. because he only wanted shochtim in his community who wore tefillin during the week.