[Avodah] How much Conformity to local Nusach/Mihag is required for Shatz and for the Private Worshiper?

[Michael Kopinsky]

On 15/10/2007, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> My problem with saying "we follow ArtScroll" is just that; it means
> that the rav was being arbitrary (we are stocked with AS siddurim,
> so...) rather than following precedent or sevara. Personally, I am
> more irritated by the lack of sevara, but I accept your
> generalization.


Marc Shapiro writes regarding this on Seforim blog:



> Let me conclude with a story of one shul that refused to be run over by
> Artscroll. The year was 2001 and on Shabbat morning I was davening at the
> Rydniker Shtiebl on the Upper West Side which was across the street from my
> apartment. The late Rabbi Orenstein, who had studied in Kamenitz before the
> war, was the rav. It was one of those Shabboses where there is some
> confusion as to which Haftorah is read. Rabbi Orenstein told the reader what
> he should do, and someone called out that Artscroll says that we should read
> a different haftorah. Dr. David Diamond stood up, banged his hand on the
> bimah, and very sternly declared: "In this shul we have a rav, and we follow
> what he tells us to do. Artscroll is not the rav and Artscroll does not tell
> us which Haftorah to read!" With that he sat down, and never again did
> anyone dare ask a "kasha" on the Rav from Artscroll.

(
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html,
footnote 8)
KT,
Michael
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