[Avodah] The MB, Minhagei Lita, and Temimos

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Rich Wolpoe wrote:
> Years ago I posted that the Litvisher rabbanim I knew said
> that the AhS was the prevailing poseiq in Lita not the MB.
> ... The last 3 doros of Gdolei Psaq in Lita went more or
> less like this: R Yitzchok Elchanan Spektor / AhS / Rav
> Chaim Ozer. Grodzinsky
> However the yeshivisher world has since lionized other
> G'dolim instead.

Ein hachi nami. So what? This is not the first time that the less-popular in one generation, has become the more-popular just a few generations later. If I'm not mistaken, it happened with Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel too.

Akiva Miller

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