[Avodah] Consumer Alert: Minhog Scams On The Rise!

[Ben Waxman]

From: <kennethgmiller at juno.com>
> My guess is that if any poskim actually endorse such a procedure, it is 
> with the logic of the poskim who allow Kaddish Yasom to be said by many 
> together. Namely, that there is no sense to it at all, but the only 
> alternative is machlokes. How sad that we can't just be unified by whoever 
> is the majority.

Actually I know of a small yishuv, that didn't have enough people for every 
minhag, and they went to R. Eliyahu Tz"l and he told them to simply go by 
the SZ, be it Sephard, Ashkenaz or Eidut HaMizrach. For RH and YK they were 
told that they should try and have a seperate EM minyan but for the rest of 
the year, daven together.


From: <kennethgmiller at juno.com>
> On a practical basis, I wonder how it works at Mincha; do people pay close 
> attention to the chatzi kaddish after Ashrei, to see whether the chazan 
> says "v'yatzmach purkanei", so that they'll know whether to say "N'kadesh" 
> or "Nakdishach" at Kedusha?

>From what I can tell, most people simply say their own nusach regardless of 
what the SZ say. Some, like myself, don't say either unless they are 
absolutely sure what the SZ is saying.

Ben