[Avodah] chumrah leading to a kulah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 11/25/2015 10:07 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
> In a recent tradition article article there is an example how a chumrah
> especially made as a reaction leads to a kulah
>
> In the prohibition R Louis Ginzberg issued a psak that one could use
> grape juice for kiddush. In reaction to this Conservative psak some O
> rabbi attacked R Ginzburg and paskened that grape juice was no different
> than orange juice and certainly not to be used for kiddush. As a result O
> Jews used wine for kiddush during the prohibition but drank grape juice
> without any hechsher.

If anyone did so, it was out of amhoratzus, not a result of this psak.


> Today (beginning with R Pesach Tzvi Frank) most poskim say that one can
> use grape juice for kiddush (some even say its preferable). Most important
> they all hold that grape juice is wine for the prohibition of stam yeinam

Everyone always held that it's subject to stam yeinam.  There has never
been a psak from anyone otherwise.



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