[Avodah] Tinok Shenishba

[Arie Folger]

On Monday, 24. March 2008 17.07:44 avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org wrote:
> Many Ortho's have made wholesale changes to nusach.  Too many to even list.
> An Ortho working as educational director in a C shul told me that he could
> not understand the hypocrisy of attacking C changes in Nusach when  many
> ortho's have done it, too. I must confess, I had no answer - except to
> become a student of the history of authentic nusach

While I wholeheartedly endorse the idea of becoming an avid student of 
nussa'h, I must stress that there are changes and there are chnages. Many 
changes are based on theological positions that may or may not be compatible 
with O belief. Hence, there is a world of a difference between C changes and 
O changes.

Please do not use this as a springboard to discuss shalom 'aleikhem or 
malakhei ra'hamim, as we have beaten that horse to death - not all O is 
Rambam, but we do generally recognize what is an O compatible theology and 
what is not. Sufficiently to make my point.

Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger
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