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

[Saul Guberman]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:30, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> Wow, *that's* a stretch!  Bimchilas kevodo, where did he come up with it?
> He says he's responding to mockers, but how can anyone possibly find that
> convoluted explanation easier to accept than the straightforward meaning?
> A person who believes in Hashem has no difficulty accepting the plain
> meaning, and a mocker will only laugh at the knots into which the apologist
> twists himself to explain this away.  So why bother coming up with it?
> In any event, we are certainly not required to accept it.
>

I am not sure how this footnote explanation is any more of a stretch than a
piece of paper falling from heaven.  I don't think either explanation is
"required" to be accepted.  Both say AKH is the source.  It is just a
question of how AKH was inspired to put it in the Tefillah.

Shabbat Shalom,

Saul
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