[Avodah] Stained Glass Windows

Arie Folger afolger at aishdas.org
Fri Oct 15 01:53:53 PDT 2010


R'YL asked:
> This morning someone told me that he had heard  that RYBS once
> spoke against installing stained glass windows in a synagogue,
> saying it was Chukas Ha Goyim. He said he had heard that RYBS
> went so far as to say that one should not go to a synagogue with
> stained glass windows to hear shofar.
>
> Can anyone verify this?

It's a letter, printed in Community, Covenant and Conversation, of the
Meotzar haRav series, and it was about a non denominational chapel at
a prominent university (perhaps Columbia IIRC).

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Arie Folger,
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