[Avodah] halachik status of siddur

[Meir Shinnar]

Yes, people learn from piyutim - and major rishonim wrote  
commentaries on piyutim.  However, this is because that they were  
written by people with stature and accepted by the community - not  
because the fact it was a piyut in the siddur meant that it was  
therefore accepted that any statement in it was halachically binding  
and a binding principle of faith...
I would add that the brisker psak is not based merely on the kinah -  
but on the fact that a day was not added for gzerot tatnav - and the  
kinah gives an explicit reason for what seems implicit in other  
sources - and is therefore the proof text.
Meir Shinnar
On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:

> Do the ideas of any piyut incorporated into a standard siddur or
> machzor now have legal status that rejecting them is now  
> problematic???>>
>
> The halachik status of sayings in the siddur is very unclear.
> A famous example is the Brisker psak that one cannot add a day
> for the Holocaust based on a kinah for Tisha Ba-av. Other more
> haskafic questions are Prayers on Rh-YK that talk about
> G-d determining what will happen in the coming year. According to
> most rishonim that G-d only decides for tzaddikim this tefilot are
> not le-halacha. Similarly prayers on RH-YK that the world was created
> on RH are not necessarily psak but it is debated
>
> Chag Kasher vesameach
>
> -- 
> Eli Turkel