[Avodah] Selichos - Especially before Midnight

[R Davidovich]

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> From: "kennethgmiller at juno.com" <kennethgmiller at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [Avodah] Selichos - Especially before Midnight
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> R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> > Rav Gelley has said many times that Breu'ers does not say
> > X or Y because their minhag pre-dates the inclusion of X
> > or Y into the Davening - IOW the minhag is older than Rema!
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> I'd like to know how this works. At what point did the kehilah say "Today
> is the cutoff. Things we've added until now are okay, but no more new
> stuff."
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> I ask this because it seems clear to me that they DO say some things which
> were added after Chasimas HaGemara. Like Slichos.
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> Akiva Miller


 As RRW could tell you, Minhag Ashkenaz is not defined by Chasimas
Hagemara.  It is based to a far more tangible extent on the early geonic
minhagim they developed up until the globalization of European customs and
the input of the Zohar.  So selichos made the cut.

Raffy Davidovich
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