[Avodah] one person saying vayuchulu

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:48:26PM +0300, Shlomo Pick wrote:
: Concerning your observation about one person saying vayuchulu on Friday
: nite, see chazion ish, moed hil shabbos, siman 38 ot yud, s.v. tur siman
: reish samech chet.
: His position is against rishonim, see the discussion in meiri's introduction
: to beis habechira.

His position is only against rishonim if RCB meant it as ikkar hadin.
If, however, he was saying that mishum eidus, it would be more meaningful
to have the hanhagah -- lifnim mishuras hadin -- of not saying it alone,
it's not a setirah to the rishonim.

As RRW often notes, the Gra most likely meant his hanhagos in this way,
and it's only his talmidim (and their talmidim), after his petirah,
who turned one person's hanhagos that he did himself into a new norm.
Confusing a hanhagah tovah that adds meaning for the individual who
relates to that meaning with pesaq.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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