[Avodah] The MB, Minhagei Lita, and Temimos

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Yitzchok Levine
<Larry.Levine at stevens.edu>wrote:

>  Rabbi Menachem Mendel (Manual) Poliakoff is the dean of Baltimore rabbis.
> He is a grandson of the Rabbi Avraham Nachman Schwartz, who founded the
> Talmudical Academy of Baltimore in 1917. (See *"* Bringing Torah Education
> to Baltimore<http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/36516/Bringing_Torah_Education_To_Baltimore_Dr._Yitzchok_Levine.html>"
> *The Jewish Press, *October 3, 2008, pages 57 & 75. )
>
> Yitzchok Levine
>
>
> *Background
>
> *A commonly-held fallacy is that only within the geographical borders of
> today's Lithuania did the various Jewish communities observe the Lithuanian
> customs. The
> truth is *Minhag Lita *prevailed throughout most of Eastern Europe, from
> the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, including Belarusia (White Russia) and
> substantial sections of Poland.
>
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If you take a Roedlehim Machazor
and the Vilna KOLBO machazor you will find a lot in common.  Especially not
the slichos  during YK Shacharis, Musaph, and Mincha

The old Litvisher Minhag was fairly close to authentic Ashkenazic roots
throughout the 18th Century. I do not know exactly how it evolved away.

Illustration:  Yekkestoday still have no synogogue break on Yom Kippur.  The
Chayei Adam takes this for granted and therefore does NOT permit a Kallah
leniencies to look presentable because "people are in shul all day long"

But today, Most American non-Yekke Ashkneazic shuls DO have a break. Sp we
see things changed even inthe Litvisher velt.

I would guess that one can still extract the authentic Litvisher minhaggim
from books by using a careful read of Chyei Adam, AhS, And certain teshuvos
from Lita.

-- 
Kol Tuv - Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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