[Avodah] some halachot of moser

[Daniel Israel]

Zev Sero wrote:
> 2. The Aruch Hashulchan absolutely cannot be relied on in this area;
> his exaggerated flattery of contemporary government is transparently
> designed to please the censor, and is so over the top precisely so
> that the reader should understand that he doesn't mean it.  E.g. see
> the title of the siman on hilchot gerut.   It's of a piece with the
> siddurim that proclaimed "avinu malkenu en lanu melech *bashamayim*
> ela ata"; everybody understood that the extra word was not to be said.

Unfortunately, as far as authoritative sources go, once you insist on 
such a reading, the authority of the source is back to being simply your 
assertion.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu