Q. What is better to attend a shul that is further away and there is schar pesios, or to daven in a shul where there are more people berov am?
A. Avnei Yoshfe (7: 23) quotes Bais Boruch (17: 5) that Rov Am preempts Schar Pesios and one should attend the shul with more people. The reason given is that Rov Am is a quality in the shul itself. From the order of the factors to be taken into account when deciding where to daven, stated in Chaye Odom, (H. Bais Hakneses 17) it would seem that he also agrees.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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