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

[Ken Bloom]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 02:38:34 EDT
T613K at aol.com wrote:

> From: R' Ken Bloom:
> 
> >>R' Ovadia does not allow a sepharadi  to serve as the shaliach
> >>tzibbur
> at an ashkenazi shul, because l'chatchilah a  sepharadi should not
> daven nusach ashkenaz because the sepharadi nusach is  kabbalistically
> superior. <<
>  
> >>>>>
> This reminds me of a similar shailah I've heard asked on more than
> one occasion:  Is a person allowed to change his nusach from Nusach
> Ashkenaz to  Nusach Sefard (chassidish) or vice versa?
>  
> Lubavitchers posken that you can change from Nusach Ashkenaz to
> Nusach Ari (but not vice versa) because Nusach Ari is kabbalistically
> superior.  You  can go up in nusach but not go down.

And ROY (YY 101 -- sounds like I should just post the whole chapter)
says the same thing about the nusach of the spharadim, basing himself
on the HIDA.

> Litvaks posken that you can change from Nusach Sfard to Nusach
> Ashkenaz  (but not vice versa) because Nusach Ashkenaz was the
> original, true nusach from which the chassidim deviated, so you would
> just be going back to the nusach of your greatgrandfather, which is
> always preferable.

Presumably, one cannot do this if they are actually sepharadi, davening
in the nusach of the sepharadim.

--Ken


-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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