[Avodah] Don't Blow Out the Candles and Make a Wish

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 10/14/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> : Given a cheifetz of Avodah Zoro can be nullified by a goy [bittul]
> : lI wonder nowadays that since many of these sueprpsitions that USED TO
> BE AZ
> : have the status of being Batel because they have been secularized -
> : therefore no issur is hal anymore.
>
> You assume that a lack of preserving their importance is the same as an
> active bitul. Is that true?


I am not positing this as a positive p'sak. I am speculating that MIGHT be
the case in order to rationalize a yishuv to the "minhag".

See Rema about Dancing on Shabbos and YT [Orach Chaim 339].   Sometimes with
a rationale you can combine mutav shyihyu shoggegim, etc.



: I would speuclate the same MAY be true for Halloween which has pagan/Xtian
> : origins but is has really evolved into a secualr Purim style masquerade
> for
> : most people.
>
> Although still a celebration tied to evil -- death themes, ritualized
> version of extortion (Trick or Treat). Not quite wholesome either way.


Ein hachi nami
and NFL football is probably too gruesomely violent, too!  And NOT in
pretend way either.



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