[Avodah] Starting Shacharis early the day after Yom Kippur

[Poppers, Michael]

In Avodah Digest, Vol 27, Issue 176, RMBluke wrote:
> The acharonim (see the Mateh Efraim and Aruch Hashulchan at the end of Siman 624) bring down a minhag to get up early to daven the day after Yom Kippur so the Satan will not be able to complain.
> Somehow this has turned into a minhag to start davening 5 minutes earlier in parts of Israel. The 6:30 minyan starts at 6:25 the 7:00 minyan starts at 6:55 and even the 8:00 minyan starts at 7:55.
> IMHO I don't see how this is mekayem the minhag at all. There is no way that going 5 minutes early to an 8:00 minyan is called mashkimim. This is just another instance where the spirit of the minhag is completely ignored for a doubtful mechanical kiyum.
> Does anyone else have this minhag in their neighborhood to start davening 5 minutes earlier today? <
The minhag apparently predates those noted acharonim, and perhaps it was brought down as a siman of one's intent (which a five-minute period suffices to indicate) rather than specifically as "getting up early" in the manner that one had previously been doing since before Rosh haShanah.  At any rate, to answer the Q: yes, such was the minhag in KAJ/"Breuer's."

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