[Avodah] changing nusach hatefile

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

I have to admit that reading Rav Moshe's teshuva a few more times has shown
me another way of understanding it, very different from what I posted
previously.

R' Eli Turkel wrote:

> I understood RMF as paskening that all chassidim MUST halachically
> return to nusach ashkenaz.

R' Zev Sero wrote:

> This is just not true.  Whoever told you such a thing must not
> have seen the teshuvah inside, or misremembered it.

A third possibility is that someone DID read the teshuva inside, but
interprets it differently than how RZS interprets it.

The teshuva which we've been referring to is Igros Moshe, O"C 2:24. I'd
like to focus on the second paragraph, beginning on line 6. Rav Moshe
writes:

"You can't consider it to be a Change Of Minhag, that which you have
started to daven Nusach Ashkenaz, even though your father - and another two
or three generations - started to daven in the new nusach. Rather, on the
contrary! THEY changed the minhag of their fathers, and our rabbis, the
Adirei Olam, the Chachmei Tzarfas and Ashkenaz."

On the one hand, Rav Moshe did use the word "resha'i - allowed", and did
not actually say that the questioner was required to switch to Ashkenaz.
That's the view I wrote of in my last post, and it seems to be RZS's view
as well.

But I have to admit that Rav Moshe also accused 3 or 4 generations of doing
something wrong, and it is difficult to imagine that he'd think it's okay
for yet another generation to continue on that same path.

And if RET wants to understand that all such people MUST refrain from
repeating the errors of the past, then I can't say he's wrong.

Akiva Miller
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