[Avodah] Auspicious times in Halocho

[Danny Schoemann]

I believe it's time to move this thread to Avoda.

Here's the history:

Danny Schoemann wrote:
>>>>>> after seeing this ad in today's Yated Neeman
>>>>>> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K1M8us_YSxA/Swur_laaRnI/AAAAAAAAASY/lOucavp25ck/s1600/scan0107.jpg
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>> Danny Schoemann wrote:
>>>>> Cry; after all, real Yidden have a Mitzva of Lo Th'Onenu (Vayikra
>>>>> 19:26) which forbids one from declaring certain times as auspicious.
>
>> R' Zev Sero  replied
>>>> Really?  That would be news to Dovid Hamelech, the Gemara, the Shulchan
>>>> Aruch, and pretty much everybody else.
>
>> Danny Schoemann replied:
>>> Please elaborate; I was simply quoting a Rashi on Chumash and the
>>> Chafetz-Chaim's Sefer haMitzvot haKatzar; Negative Mitzvah 166.
>
>>> R' Zev Sero  replied
>>> Start with Shulchan Aruch siman 1.
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>> Which says (based on a Posuk in Yirmiyahu) that since HKBH mourns the
>> Churban Bet Hamikdash at the change of the Ashmuro (Brochos 3.)
>> therefore it's an appropriate time for us to also mourn the Churban.
>>
>> The leap from a Posuk for the correct time for Tikun Chatzos, to an
>> "obscure Sefer" declaring 9-9-9-9 as an auspicious time to Daven,
>> eludes me.
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> R' Zev Sero  replied
>It thoroughly refutes your assertion that believing in auspicious
>times for tefillah is somehow wrong or unJewish.  There are of course
>many many more sources, but I can't be bothered compiling a list, when
>that one is sufficient.

So how do we reconcile the issur Lo Th'Onenu (Vayikra 19:26) with
various auspicious times sprinkled throughout our literature??

IIRC the Sefer Chariedim has a collection of these "auspicious times",
and if you add them all up they cover almost 24/7. :-)

- Danny, tired of playing the "devil's advocate"