Regarding a ban (cherem) between Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities concerning prayer in each other's synagogues.

Date: 13 Adar I 5578

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi Moshe Segal Margolies

Description

The responsum addresses a ban established in 1793 between Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, prohibiting members from praying in each other's synagogues, and seeks a dispensation for the Sephardim whose community has dwindled and prefer to pray in the Ashkenazi synagogue.

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer Collected §1

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