[Avodah] The GRA

[Daniel Eidensohn]

Rich, Joel wrote:
>
> I'm hoping someone with a good knowledge of halachik/minhagic history 
> can help me out.  I recall learning a long while ago (don't know where 
> don't know when) that the GRA's halachik positions were not accepted 
> except by his few "students" and that it was only later (e.g. since 
> his students were the ones who moved to E"Y his minhagim were 
> established there, so to within certain Yeshivot later on).
>
> I was just listening to R' Reisman's Navi shiur and he used the GRA as 
> an example of how a generation followed its manhig.
>
>
Igros Moshe V #24.6 page 78. and YD IV 17.26 page 200 See also topic of 
Gra in Yad Moshe page 58
There is also the issue of berchas cohanim that the Gra unsuccessfully 
tried to reintroduce.


One of the goals of the Mishna Berura was to introduce the Gra's rulings 
into the mainstream