- Q. See question above. If I can’t blow for myself without a minyan, yet since I’m able to attend a shul for Mincha, if the people agree, can I blow the shofar then?
A. Mori Verabi, Horav Moishe Feinstein ZT”L rules that if a minyan did not blow in the morning, they can blow in the Mincha Tefila, since there are indeed congregations that blow in the evening prayers also (Igrois Moshe O.H. 4: p. 34).
Tzitz Eliezer 12; 40, Nitei Gavriel p. 27) add that the reasons for blowing the shofar do not necessarily apply when davening without a minyan.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirshman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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