[Avodah] The Superbowl Maariv

[T613K at aol.com]

>> The Super Bowl Maariv works quite handily with Halakhic  Man....
 
The dialectic tension between homo-religiousus and cognitive man  is
nothing more than the process by which one arrives at the state  of
Halachic man.<< [--RHM]
 
 
 
>>>>>
 
I would like to suggest that anyone who is not actually RYBS should refrain 
 from trying to sound like him.  It is better to use plain everyday  prose. 
 The above sentence conveys no meaning and inadvertently comes out  
sounding like a parody of a great man rather than a homage to him.  
 
I also think it highly unlikely that RYBS would have approved of a shul  
changing its regular davening time to accommodate the Super Bowl.  
 
As long as they can get ten men to come at the regular time, that should be 
 the time of davening in the shul.  The other fifty men can arrange their  
own ad hoc minyanim if they like, even in the shul building if the rabbi 
doesn't  mind, but the shul should not officially recognize that the Super Bowl 
is  docheh Maariv.
 
Hm but I just thought of a counter-argument to what I just wrote a second  
ago.  Some shuls in my neighborhood have Shacharis an hour later on  Sundays 
than other weekdays, and also start later on legal holidays.  Some  people 
think this is improper, but it's what the shuls do.  So obviously  it's 
permissible and maybe even the preferred thing to do, in order to  maximize the 
number of men who will come to minyan?
 
Ay, I think I'm beginning to understand the tension between  
homo-religiousus and cognitive man.... 
 

 



--Toby Katz
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Romney -- good  values, good family, good  hair


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