[Avodah] Kedusha - Remaining Silent During the Chazzan's Recitation

[Zev Sero]

On 10/03/2011 11:57 AM, Dov Weinstock wrote:
> custom in a part of Ashkenaz to drink stam yeinam, which even the Rema in a
> teshuva refused to condemn (although he states strongly that no one should
> adopt this custom)

1. The teshuvah is not from the Rema.  It was accidentally included in
the first edition of teshuvos haRema, and was omitted from the second
edition.

2. The author certainly does condemn this "custom".  What he does not do
is condemn the ignorant Moravians who practise it in good faith, since he
assumes that they must once have had an incompetent rabbi who permitted it.
To make this assumption plausible, he demonstrates a faulty chain of logic
which leads to such a conclusion, and which might have occurred to this
hypothetical person.


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