[Avodah] Selichos - Especially before Midnight

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:08:19PM -0400, Michael Poppers wrote:
: Talking about prior onlist conversation, you and I have talked about this
: subject, too.  One's personal predilections do not outweigh minhag hamaqom,
: but what one does in private, e.g. washing (however one performs that
: washing) before Qiddush, isn't a "lo sisgod'du" issue even when the vast
: majority of the community does otherwise.

The question was skipping Berikh Shemei when one is not the sha"tz and
no one else would notice.

The parallel would be something I do every Shabbos: Daven nusach Ashkenaz
when saying tefillah belachash, but answering Qedushah with the rest of
the minyan in nusach "Sfard".

Tir'u baTov!
-mi