[Avodah] Minhag Yisroel Mor on Rav Shachter and Masorah

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, October 17, 2007 10:05 pm, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> : And now by extension may kohanim use an innovation such as a box to
> : visit
> : the Rebb's Ohel?
> :    1. Does that constitute a Shinuy of Halachah?
> 
> First, L isn't the first to do it.
> 
> Second, it's ridiculous to project such a blatantly Brisker model of
> halakhah onto L. Of course it won't jibe. Why would you expect it to?

Actually, B and L are close enough in practise and attitude that it
is reasonable to ask such a question from one on the other.  But in
this case I don't see why B would have a problem with it.

Both B and L probably had eruvin, and people carried their keys in
their pockets.  When Bers and Lers moved to the big cities, where they
didn't like the eruvin that they found there, at some point they started
wearing key-belts.  Was that a "chiddush" just because they hadn't done
it before?  Does RHS not wear a key-belt because his elter-elter-zaide
lived in an eruv which was kosher lechol-hade'ot and didn't need one?
I don't see it.  And I don't see the difference between the key-belt
and the ohel-box.

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