When the Tchortkover was in Lemberg, they asked him to pray at the synagogue of the Tur Hazahav. He did not want to go, and related the following story:
The Berdichever Rav was also once in Lemberg, and they invited him to the Tur Hazahav’s synagogue. So, he went and davened [nusach] Sefarad. The Tur Hazahav got wind of this, and he was very surprised and asked: “How is this possible? I prayed Nusach Ashkenaz for fifty years, what right did the Berdichever have to change the Nusach?”
The Chortkover concluded: “One is not allowed to change the Tur Hazahav’s Nusach, and we cannot change our Nusach, therefore I don’t want to go to that synagogue.”
I.F.
A Polish Jew
