[Avodah] shatz saying things out loud

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:17:51AM +0000, Elazar M. Teitz wrote:
: While R. Chaim ...
: I believe that he did not draw the conclusion that one should therefore
: stand with his feet together. ... It was RYBS who drew that conclusion,
: and to the best of my knowledge it is only among his talmidim and those
: who learned from them that it is practiced.
: One wonders (at least, this one does) why, if such were the requirement,
: it went unmentioned by anyone for two millenia of chazaras hashatz.

As already retold, when RYBS got older, he was matir neder every erev
YK as he didn't expect to be able to stand through Chazaras haShatz for
YK Mussaf.

Doesn't this imply that RYBS too held it wasn't ikkar hadin? Hataras
nedarim is for minhagim, no?

Even without REMT's observation, RYBS's talmidim could figure out from his
own actions that their rebbe didn't intend to promulgate a new halakhah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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