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

[Zev Sero]

On 21/06/2011 1:17 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:
> Be this as it may, I have wondered more than once how the ARI could
> come along and change so many things and have these changes accepted
> by many communities. It is all the more surprising to me given that he
> lived for only 38 years according to many sources.

It's because he didn't make anything up himself; everything he taught
came from his rebbe, Eliyohu Hanovi.  He revealed secrets that had not
been known before him, so it's logical that people changed their
minhogim to bring them into line with these new revelations, just as
the medical discoveries of the past 200 years have caused everyone to
change their lifestyles.



On 21/06/2011 4:10 PM, Ben Waxman wrote:
> Unless you follow minhag taiman, in which case you do like the Mehaber (baesed on the Rambam?)

Not in any Temani minyan I've ever seen.

-- 
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name