“That’s just it. If, …If the new Shul has more talking and you’re changing because the old Shul became a crowd of older mispallelim who you have little in common to socialize with, so you want to go to Shul with a younger crowd you can shmooze with, that would seem to be unjustifiable.”
that isnt based on” a whim” that is a chaneg to either a. Be in a shul you feel more comfortbakle in or b. In a shul where you are free to shmooze.
the first is ceertianly justifiable and even the second depending on the scenario may be justifiable as well( depends when shmoozing takes palce, and for a guy who will shmooze, arguably it is better to daven in a shul where everybody shmoozes than to shmooze in a shul whre peopel are trying not to.
You say there is “Even if the change is neutral (same) ruchniyos-wise,”
Gashmiyus is important too.
At any rate if they are the same why change?
LC
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