[Avodah] Vten Tal Umatar

[Rich, Joel]

RMF is more specific than what I wrote; he wrote "bimkomoteinu, shetzrichim gshamim mitchilat hasha"; this presumably refers to the United States, since the tshuva was written in 1962.
RVosner writes "chu"l" throughout the tshuva.
See the Aruch HaShulchan to OCh 117, where he states that in "Europe" (presumably Eastern Europe) rains isn't really needed in the winter at all. In fact, it is needed davka in the spring, when the fields are sowed.

Saul Mashbaum

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Which raises the general  question  of defining a "universe" for such issues as weather (geographic features? political boundaries?Jewish residence?), miyut hamatzui (e.g. treifot-which type/area cows do we look at).
We've discussed some of these before iirc.
KT
Joel Rich
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