[Avodah] Not saying Tachanun (was Yom Haatzmaut)

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 04/29/2015 03:11 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:53:00PM +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
> :> #2 A good example to my mind is the chasidic groups who celebrate
> :> the anniversary of their rebbe's release from prison. Would RYBS
> :> insist that they say Tachanun on such days?
>
> : I had the same question.
>
> I bet he said tachanun on the Gra's or R' Chaim's (Volozhin or Brisk)
> yahrzeit, etc... For people who are seeking his pesaq, it's very likely
> he would inist on Tachanun on days like that.

Of course he said tachanun on their yortzeits, why wouldn't he?  The whole
concept of turning a yortzeit into a holiday wasn't native to his world.
The question is what he would do on a day they had been saved from some
danger, and had observed as a private yomtov, or on a day that his
community had adopted as a local "purim" to commemorate being saved from
danger, as was a common practise among Jewish communities.



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