Neville, are you trying to understand minhagim?! Minhagim rarely make any sense (especially chassidish ones, and extra specially Lubavitch ones)! It’s hard enoughto try to understand our Litvish minhagim! Chaim Berlin has it’s own minhagim – like what’s the deal with folding talis on the shoulder under, when everyone folds it over?! (I was told Rav Hutner z”l started that – I am sure for good reason, but don’t try to understand and explain it). We do a heicha kedusha for Mincha, ignoring normative Shulchan Aruch, because that is the minhag in most Litvish Yeshivos – don’t try to explain, it’s ok. A minhag can trump halacha! (That is actually the halacha!) No one has a right to howl at other yidden that have their minhagim – that is their minhag, ity’s NOT for me or you, but for them it is ok. Don’t you get that?!
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