[Avodah] changing nusach [was: Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz on RSRH's 19 Letters]

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:49:51PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: Lithuanian poskim say that you can switch from Nusach Sfard...
: Chassidim say that you can switch from Nusach Ashkenaz to Nusach Sfard...

: So the bottom line is whether you're a Litvak or a chossid, everyone  else 
: can change to your nusach but you can't change to theirs.

Well obviously, they are just repeating the original reasons for the split
-- minhag avos vs the Ari's kavanos. Or, on my "triangle": mimeticism
vs aggadita, although it might be legal argument vs aggadita.

However, ROY is saying something very different. His argument is specific
to what he believes is the SA's role in pesaq in EY. Not that "ours is
better" in some absolute sense, but that Sepharadi pesaq is the yishuv's
minhag hamaqom.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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